Brooklyn Wildllife

Wolves are rarely encountered on the streets of Brooklyn, but DUMBO resident John Rocco feels an affinity for the iconic figure he feels has been misrepresented in children’s literature.

New Kids on the Block

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Even 8-year-olds should be in booster seats in the car, safety experts urge.

Reviews of books, kids' music, games and toys. Editors' picks.

Robbi K is not your typical children's performer — her music, which draws from diverse genres including jazz, world music, pop and blues, appeals to the whole family.

Every time we took the Holland Tunnel when my kids were younger,, we would pass the Liberty Science Center and they'd beg to stop. But the museum has been closed for two years, and my teens have outgrown family trips to IKEA and the desire for interactive museum experiences.

Many parents enroll their children in afterschool programs, whether they work outside or inside the home.

Many kids’ yoga classes incorporate games. Long Island-based Katie Feldman has gone a few steps further.

It was a time of peace and love, flower power, feel-good drugs — and the end of an era. If you missed it, you can experience it now as the Whitney Museum of American Art looks back at 1965 with its Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era exhibit, on view until September 16.

Most of us move on to other pursuits when our kids graduate from nursery school or age out of a sports program.

If, like Toby Tyler, you’ve dreamed of joining the circus, the Trapeze School New York is for you — and your family. Kids as young as 6 are allowed to take a class, but all ages are taught together.

You may be reading this issue in 90-degree heat, or at the pool, and you’re thinking, “Back to school already?”

One trip is never enough to see all that our nation’s capital has to offer families. Here are some museums that specialize in hands-on activities. Check them out on your next visit, or the one after that.

One of the pleasures of Fire Island is the car-free bike riding. But you don’t have to schlep all the way to Long Island to enjoy this kind of freedom.

A new book looks at the push to make consumers out of toddlers.

When your kids are small, you enroll them in ‘movement’ classes, hoping it will lead to a lifetime of sports or dance.

Virginia Madsen, who says she is “not a city girl”, took up temporary residence in New York recently, while shooting her latest movie, 'Diminished Capacity'.

For a city known to be big and sprawling, Dallas is surprisingly easy to navigate.

I was the kind of kid for whom a door marked “private” meant I needed to see inside; a fence was an invitation to climb. So I have long been intrigued by an area marked “Friends or Quaker Cemetery (Private)” on my local Prospect Park map.

The teacher is usually the one on the classroom who has to deal with the class clown. In Steve Solomon’s case, he was the teacher and the funny guy. And now he is capitalizing on his talents

The International School of Brooklyn (ISB), NYC’s only French/Spanish language-immersion school following the International Baccalaureate curriculum, is moving to a bigger space and adding first grade in September 2007.

Upper East Side mom Crystal McCrary Anthony has had not one, but two successful careers.

It’s a Wrap!

Raegan Moya-Jones is a native of Australia, where swaddling infants is the norm. When she and her friend Claudia Schwartz, also from Down Under, were pregnant with their first children, they couldn’t find the lightweight muslin wraps they remembered, so they decided to start their own company.

Families at Play

Husband-and-wife team Brian Kaplan and Lambeth Hochwald, parents of 3-year-old Zachary, have found a way to combine family time together with a business that focuses on family togetherness.

Theater camps are a dime a dozen in New York City, but Camp Broadway stands out, not least because its weeklong fees are exponentially higher than the others. But in addition, this performing arts camp, started in 1995, offers an authentic Broadway experience