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Amy Oztan
City Mom
Amy Oztan, originally from Buffalo, settled in Clinton Hill Brooklyn in 2002 with her husband and two kids, Jake and Fiona. Having worked previously as a McDonald's grill cook, lifeguard, campus police dispatcher, receptionist, waitress, concierge, stage actress, movie and TV extra, mad scientist, and production assistant, she is thrilled to be a work-at-home mom blogger and consultant. Amy watches too much TV, laughs at (and makes) inappropriate jokes, and secretly wishes to replace all of her friends' Veggie Booty with Cheetos. Amy supports public schools and hates it when people talk in theaters. Someday she will finally arrange all of her photos into scrapbooks and learn how to knit more than scarves. When she's not napping Amy also writes at SelfishMom.com (http://selfishmom.com), FilmingInBrooklyn.com (http://filminginbrooklyn.com), and NYCMetroMoms.com (http://nycmetromoms.com).
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Read More PermalinkI always thought that I was being a lot more sensible than some of the other mothers I know when it comes to guns. I grew up playing a lot of cops and robbers, and had no problem with my own children pretending in that way. Seemed... -
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Read More PermalinkDespite my complete inability to create an interesting Halloween costume as a kid (I was almost always a princess of some sort) I loved the idea of wandering around with my sisters, begging for candy. These were... -
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Read More PermalinkMy nine-year-old son Jake drives me crazy in a thousand different ways, but I can’t get too upset about them because I was just like him when I was a kid. One of the things that he does that frustrates me is that he... -
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Read More PermalinkI’m a fairly lazy person. The only way you can tell I’m on vacation is that I’m being lazy in a place other than my house. The kids and I travel well together: we sleep late, order a lot of room... -
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Read More PermalinkWhenever I see a story about a judge who imposes “unorthodox” sentences – making the guilty person stand on a corner wearing a sandwich board explaining how they humiliated someone else, or working... -
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Read More PermalinkSo a hot topic in our household has always been what our son is eating. It’s one of the top things my husband and I argue about. We’re on the same page about allowance, discipline, and many other aspects... -
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Read More PermalinkI have to admit, I’m still getting used to the fact that my kids are old enough to have social lives largely independent of my own. Until recently, who they played with outside of school depended on who I wanted to spend my... -
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Read More PermalinkIn 1969 the Supreme Court ruled that schools could only keep students from expressing themselves when such expression... -
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Read More PermalinkI sing in a church choir most Sundays, and the choir gets a unique perspective since we sit facing the congregation. We get an extra treat when there’s a baptism, since those happen directly in front of us. ...
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