Donna Fish

Really? He really said that? Dr. Sears was on the Today Show this morning with the senior editor of TIME, Jeffrey Kluger, and the Mom who posed for the magazine's current cover, breastfeeding her almost 4-year-old son, basically saying that no child who has been parented in this manner, which...

Another year has come and gone with parents in the city stressing through the process of getting their kids into school; public or private, kindergarten, middle or high school. I call it the "New York City Poll Tax"; the price we pay for raising our kids here. As more families...

Nothing like having kids to reinforce the nature part of the nurture debate when it comes to personality traits. Forget things like hair and eye color; any parent with more than one kid knows how different and unique their personalities and temperaments are, from Day One.

I broaden this to...

Living in New York City, I am always haunted by the nagging feeling that I am not taking enough advantage of the cultural offerings. I have to confess that most of the time, I go to see things that are offered up to me: free tickets handed off by a...

Turn on the Wii Fit game on our television, step on the platform, and you're promptly told by your "person:" "You have gained five pounds, and you haven't worked out in three months!"

What did this person do? She immediately stepped off, and hasn't gone back to the Wii Fit...

I don't know if you are like me, but it gets hard after a while to feel anything beyond impotent when it comes to the political decisions being made about budgets.

I am sure you have all heard of the upcoming protest at City Hall being staged against the teacher...

Just yesterday I was giving a talk at a New York City school, and the room was filled with caring parents who all wanted to make sure that they were doing their best to ensure that their children would have the best eating habits possible.

At one point, a mom...

You know how the Internet has revolutionized the music world? How YouTube has plucked individuals out of obscurity and made them household names?

Perhaps it is now the art world's turn. Todd Wahnish, a young artist who works as an assistant at...

Heidi Latsky is a nice Jewish girl from Canada. Not the usual brand of trendy, out there dancer/choreographer that the modern dance world cultivates as the "it" dancer/choreographer to watch.

But, if you were lucky enough to get a ticket to the sold out shows of Latskys'...

Anyone catch Jennifer Ringer, the New York City Ballerina on the Today Show this morning? She was on to talk about the recent review in the New York Times of her dancing where she was called out by Alastair Macaulay, for looking as though she had had a few too...

It's that time of year again, and if you pack school lunches 5 days a week, it is just the beginning of this particular job that can be just a teeny tiny bit monotonous. (To put it mildly!)

Whenever I do any lectures on kids and food, concerns about lunch...

I know I am a bit of a dinosaur when it comes to this 'social networking' business. I don't 'twit', I barely look at my 'facebook', and I just got a 'smartphone'.

But I have to admit that the 'sell' line for this website; "Confirms a person's existence" really punched...

Made sense to me that the guys on Wall Street were walking the "Hall of Shame" as they were pocketing bonuses from a bigger than ever profit year at the end of '09. But who would ever think that you could also make the big bucks running a community health...

Right now all three of my girls are fairly obsessed with watching reruns of "Sex and the City". As I watch the shows with them, (and marvel at the phenomenal writing!), I wonder: "What is the dating show equivalent for today?"

Given that much of my practice is filled...

Hard to imagine a more pressing time to think about this issue. While the one day a year has passed that we celebrate "Earth Day", I figure that like the saying: "Every Day is Kid's Day" (in response to the one day a year for Moms and Pops), every day...

It started out as a birthday gift to our turning 16 year old daughter Nicole. She has been vegan since August, immediately after having returned from our 'Month of Meat' in Africa. Not the easiest place to be a vegetarian, where game is served with every meal. A few...

Change is a' coming. Slowly, but I see some movement in a positive direction. I always think of the two things that are responsible for the rising rates of obesity in this country and in particular the high rate of childhood obesity: What we eat, and how much we eat.

Well the verdict is in. The judge made his determination that the failing schools Joel Klein tried to close without any due process could not be closed.

This allows the 80,000 letters that the Board of Ed were holding onto, that told 80,000 nailbiting 8th graders who thought they would...

You can't make this s**t up. With the recent "Marriage Ref" show featuring a couple arguing whether or not to have a 'stripper pole' in the living room, and pole dance classes popping up in suburban malls, you can understand how this situation fell out.

A well meaning dad rents...

Okay, I admit it, I am a big 'ole baby. As my adored sister in law once pointed out to me about herself, completely without shame: "I want what I want, when I want it!"

Hmm, I thought. Am I any different? Somehow I had been able to pretend to...