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21 Signs You’re a New York City Mom

by Julie Seguss

Ah, New York parenting. You can hail a cab, while folding up your stroller with one hand and carrying your toddler in the other. You can recite a list of the 10 cleanest bathrooms below 14th Street. And, you can divulge exactly what train car to ride in that will leave you off right by the escalators at your stop. Read on to discover the 21 signs you’re a New York City parent and then let us know in the comment section below which signs you identify with most!

1. You spent nearly $1,000 on your baby’s set of wheels and zero on your own.

Image: Ed Yourdon via Flickr

2. Your backyard can be measured in acres – 778 acres of Central Park, 535 acres of Prospect Park and 898 acres of Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

3. Your baby group is 50 plus moms strong, and that only includes babies born in the same month, in the same neighborhood.

Image: Joe Shalbotnik via Flickr

4. You’ve figured out how to fit a week’s worth of groceries, plus a bottle of wine, in your stroller’s basket. 

Image: Tyger_Lyllie via Flickr

5. You record sounds of sirens so you can get your kids to sleep when you’re on vacation.

Image: Tony Fischer Photography via Flickr

6. You’ve never met your kid’s best friend because he only sees her on play dates with the nanny.

Image: Colored Chalk via Flickr

7. You can weave your double jogger through a crowd of tourists with a surgeon’s precision.

Image: Ed Yourdon via Flickr

8. Your child’s social calendar is busier than yours.

Image: tom@hk via Flickr

9. Your kid is on a year-long wait list … for music class … at 6 months old.

Image: Salim Virji via Flickr

10. You dread riding the subway with your toddler because she always waves happily at the strangest characters on the train.

Image: David 23 via Flickr

11. Not only have you taken your daughter to get her hair done, but you’ve also taken her doll for an up do.

Image: Jeff Sandquist via Flickr

12. There’s more than one Atticus (or Wolfgang or Sebastian) or Pearl (or Matilda or Olive) in your child’s class.

Image: USAG-Humphreys via Flickr

13. Your two year old is a regular theater-goer.

Image: The Secret Theater

14. You bring your baby to bars and you might even nurse her while you enjoy a beer.

Image: Eoghan O Lionnain via Flickr

15. Your kid learned his ABC’s and 1, 2, 3’s by riding the subway.

Image: Mike Knell via Flickr

16. You don’t blink when you see your three year old’s “school” tuition, which could’ve put you through a semester, or year, of college.

Image: Celebration Harts via Flickr

17. Your nanny sees your kids more than you do during the week, and she even comes to their birthday parties.

Image: Ed Yourdon via Flickr

18. Picking up used toys and books off the street is a total “do.” (As long as you sanitize them before you hand them over to your kid that is.)

Image: Makelessnoise via Flickr

19. You’ve convinced your kids a ride on the bus is an actual tour of the city, just so you can keep cool during the summer.

Image: faungg via Flickr

20. You order diapers online to be delivered to your apartment.

Image: Tomas Fano via Flickr

21. Your toddler interviewed for preschools before he could say, “mama.”

Image: Juhansonin via Flickr

What did we miss? Share your “only in NYC” mom-isms in the comments below.

–Julie Seguss

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ScholarShare Disclosure

by quynnredtri

Consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses before investing in the ScholarShare College Savings Plan. Visit ScholarShare.com for a Plan Disclosure Booklet containing this and other information. Read it carefully. Before investing in a 529 plan, consider whether the state where you or your Beneficiary resides has a 529 plan that offers favorable state tax benefits that are available if you invest in that state’s 529 plan. Investments in the Plan are neither insured nor guaranteed, and there is a risk of investment loss. TIAA-CREF Tuition Financing, Inc., Program Manager. The ScholarShare 529 Twitter and Facebook pages are managed by the State of California.

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January Hot List – News, Events & Promotions

by Jacqui Boland

Once a month we share with you news, promotions and special offers from our advertising partners. We’re thrilled to welcome Tutu School and Stretch the Imagination and spread the word about these cool new programs.

Brand New Baby Classes at Tutu School!
Hooray! Tutu School is thrilled to announce the launch of classes for even the littlest of dancers: Baby Ballet! Beginning in February (and registering now!) we will be offering classes for babies under 18 months-old, in addition to our usual toddler and children’s classes. Baby Ballet classes will feature lots of Mommy/Daddy/Nanny-and-me fun, including singing, rhyming, and dancing, not to mention playing and connecting with other ballet babes. Please contact Tutu School for details and available class times. Also, mention Red Tricycle and receive 10% off of tuition. We cannot wait to get started!
Tutu School
San Francisco and Larkspur
www.tutuschool.com

“OPEN EXPLORATION” – Starts Jan. 25th At Stretch the Imagination
COME GET OUT OF THE RAIN AND INTO OUR MARIN STUDIO! This is a drop-in style play date for parents and their children. The studio will be open for creative exploration of fun activities such as sensory exploration, art, gross motor movement, construction with recycled materials and much more. This is for children ages 6 months to 4 years. Children must be accompanied by their caregiver. The drop-in days are Monday and Wednesday from 3pm -5pm starting January 25th at the Marin Studio in Corte Madera near Book Passage.
Stretch The Imagination
Call Today For Play Pass
415-927-2616
www.stretchtheimagination.com

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