Breastfeeding Toddlers – Extreme Parenting or Natural Nurtition?
Is Attachment Parenting and Breastfeeding Extreme Parenting? Have you seen the cover of the May 10th issue of TIME Magazine? It, and the article to which it refers, is sparking controversy and debate...
View ArticleThe Power of Praise
Praise can be a powerful thing, and so can telling it like it is. David McCullough Jr., a high school teacher and son of Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullough, recently made headlines for his...
View ArticleWhere Is the Respect for Elders?
Video of Bus Monitor Karen Klein Being Bullied Is Wake-Up Call for Parents Respect for elders – it might sound like an old fashioned expectation, but the recent video of the 64-year-old bus monitor who...
View ArticleCholesterol Tests for Kids: Necessary or Nonsense?
It’s time for your child’s check-up and you take him in to the doctor expecting his height and weight to be checked, and maybe an immunization for the chicken pox to be given. But are you ready for...
View ArticleForced to Breastfeed?
First giant cups of cola, now baby formula New York is becoming the leader in beverage controversy, and this time it directly affects families with babies. NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to end the...
View Article5 Ways to Build Fine Motor Skills
With Your Toddlers and Preschoolers There is something so simple in the pride a child feels when he can finally hold a pencil and write his own name – those combinations of letters scrawled on the page...
View ArticleSave the Last Dance
But Apparently Not for Daughters Sometimes we are so worried about teaching our children about equality and warning them against the evils of discrimination that we forget about common sense. We not...
View ArticleShame on You!
Did you ever read The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne? In this classic cautionary tale, Hester Prynne is forced to wear a red letter A to announce to the world that she is an adulterer. This...
View ArticleTracking Kids with Technology
Does Technology Keep Our Kids Safe or Create Minions? If you’re a parent chances are you have had that heart-stopping moment when you couldn’t find Billy in the grocery store aisle or he didn’t return...
View ArticleStudents Aren’t the Only Ones Who Hate Tests
Teachers Boycott Standardized Exams Parents, students, and more recently, educators, have been questioning the need for and reliability of standardized testing of students. New attention is being given...
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