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New York City is a place where we often live in public. As educational and parenting specialists, we hope that our own children (and our clients' children) are living, on balance, in a healthy and supportive environment. But what to do when parenting advice comes unbidden from strangers on the streets of pedestrian-friendly Manhattan or Brooklyn?
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As NYC parents ourselves, as well as professional educators, we think we can bring useful perspective to bear on some of the challenges of raising children in the city. Part of our educational philosophy is that as parents and educators we are really never off the clock; for good or bad, we're always modeling the behavior and ways of thinking that our children and students will internalize. This gets all the harder when, as we discuss here, we're talking about and reacting to the kinds of things we normally want to shield our children from, like death.
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