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Supporting Small Businesses Series: Black Tie Kids

For our latest installment in the Supporting Small Businesses Series, we sat down with Mollie Yarsike. She is the founder of Black Tie Kids, which offers an on-site camp-like experience to keep little ones entertained during weddings and events so that the adults get to adult! Their second division, Black Tie Pups, provides pup care, and […]

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Passover Through Pandemic

Many families across the country are figuring out how to celebrate Passover in non-traditional ways in the midst of a global pandemic. My extended family will be forgoing the usual traditions and instead we have planned a Zoom seder. I decided to give my family some advice on how to make our seder as much […]

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HOMEFRONT KIDS NEWS Positives USA

Everyday Hero Series: Interview with Caitlin Whittemore of the NYCDOE

Tell us about yourself! I live in Brooklyn and just moved here two months ago from Boston. I work in policy at the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE); I started about a month and a half ago after moving to the city.  What is it like to work at the NYCDOE with everything […]

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Positivity vs. Reality

In today’s modern society, we’ve been trained to be positive. Think positive and expect positive outcomes in return. From positive psychology, to Oprah, and of course to The Secret, a popular self-help book by Rhonda Byrnes that debuted in 2006, thinking positive has been culturally ingrained in us. We were taught by society to ask, […]