July 2012 - Motherlode - The Network of Care

Ban on Advertising to Children Linked to Lower Obesity Rates

After a ban on fast-food advertising to children in Quebec, childhood obesity rates decreased. But in the United States, advertising of unhealthful food to kids continues unabated. Read More...

Published Fri, Jul 13 2012 8:30 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, nutrition, advertising, sugar, childhood obesity, Center for a Commercial-Free Childhood, breakfast cereal

A Lost Child Rescues Himself

When my son was five years old, I dropped him off at a Seattle daycare center, not knowing it was closed for Good Friday. Read More...

Published Fri, Jul 27 2012 4:00 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, freerange parenting, free-range kids, freedom, letting go, day care, Candace Dempsey

Breastfeeding, and Working, at Rio+20

At the U.N. conference on sustainable development, I wasn't lobbying. I was leaking. Drenched in my own *** milk, I spent Rio+20 looking for a place to pump. Read More...

Published Fri, Jul 06 2012 10:57 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, nursing, breast pump, Breastfeeding, women's equality, sustainability, environmental issues, developing countries, pump, Rio+20

When Can a Child Ride in the Front Seat?

The C.D.C. advises that children sit in the back seat until age 13. One look at any middle school drop-off will show that most of us aren't following that advice. Are you? Read More...

Published Fri, Jul 06 2012 3:55 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, safety, carseats, _featured, parental quandary, family cars

How 'Professional' Does a Day Care Center Need to Be?

Are the problems with a day care provider petty annoyances, or indicative of a big picture issue? Read More...

Published Fri, Jul 20 2012 9:37 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Child Care, day care, paretnal quandary

Four-Plus Things to Read Before Your Next Vacation

Prevent vacation sabotage, meditate on "busyness," consider your companions and take better pictures. Read More...

Published Wed, Jul 04 2012 3:34 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, vacation

The average American throws away 33 pounds of food a month. So why does Sesame Street needs to offer guidance for parents talking children who know that there isn't always enough food to feed their family? Read More...

Published Thu, Jul 26 2012 4:00 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Food, hunger, sesame street

What People Magazine Could Do for Huma Abedin (but Not Anthony Weiner)

Maybe the aspirations underlying the couple's sudden desire to share their clean laundry with the public are hers, not his. Read More...

Published Wed, Jul 18 2012 2:20 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Twitter, sexting, infidelity, Politics, Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin

Should Movies Be Rated 'R' ... for Smoking?

Researchers suggest that it's the smoking in movies, not the associated adult behavior or the allure of the grown-up plot, that's associated with teenage smoking. Read More...

Published Tue, Jul 10 2012 7:12 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Movies, Research, smoking

Don't Fear the Suburbs

It's famously who and what we live near, rather than the size of our house or our yard, that makes us happy. Read More...

Published Thu, Jul 19 2012 7:31 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Schools, moving, Happiness, Suburbs, neighborhoods

Our Spoiled, Rotten Children

We know we're terrible, overindulgent parents raising a generation of spoiled kids, but some of us are still happy to read about it again. Read More...

Published Sun, Jul 08 2012 4:00 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Chores, Helicopter parents, parenting books, Madeline Levine, Kay Wyma, entitlement, Sally koslow, Elizabeth Kolbert, spoiled children

Bloomberg's ***-Feeding Nudge — or Shove

Starting in September, nurses in New York City hospitals will need to sign out formula like medication and give parents a mandatory talk on why *** is best. Read More...

Published Tue, Jul 31 2012 12:46 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, formula, Breastfeeding, Bloomberg bans large soda sales, Bloomberg, alissa quart

Don't Dismiss the Conversation About Marissa Mayer's Pregnancy

If we don't talk about the difficulties for someone with Ms. Mayer's advantages to work through pregnancy and childbirth, when will we start looking at the difficulties for everyone else? Read More...

Published Thu, Jul 19 2012 4:46 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Pregnancy, working mothers, working parents, the Conflict, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Why Women Can't Have It All, Yahoo C.E.O. pregnant, Marissa Mayer, Marissa Mayer pregnant, Yahoo CEO pregnant

Olympic Parents: Who Sacrifices (or is Sacrificed) for Gold?

Do the parents of the youngest competitors deserve a medal of their own, or have some sacrificed their children on the altar of Olympic dreams? Read More...

Published Mon, Jul 30 2012 11:20 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Aly Raisman parents, olympics, olympics parents, Gabby Douglas parents

Donor Siblings, and a New Kind of Family

Last month I posted eight words to the Donor Sibling Registry: Girl born October 2008. Boy born May 2010. Read More...

Published Sun, Jul 01 2012 4:00 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, infertility, egg donor, sperm donation

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