December 2012 - Motherlode - The Network of Care

Can You Have Holidays Without God?

Can you embrace the traditions without the faith, or do holidays need some religious significance to mean anything at all? Read More...

Published Fri, Dec 14 2012 6:33 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, Christmas, Hanukkah, Feiler, Bruce

How Did Your Children's School Handle the Newtown Shootings?

If your children's school discussed the shootings in Newtown, Conn., are you pleased with the way it was handled, and did it go according to plan? Read More...

Published Mon, Dec 17 2012 11:54 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, School Shootings, Children and Childhood, Newtown, Conn, Shooting (2012), Rogers, Fred

Candy Cane Scrooge

Everyone, from the bank to the dry cleaner, wants to give my children candy. When did this start, and how do I make it stop? Read More...

Published Fri, Dec 21 2012 8:10 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, candy, parenting, Obesity, Children and Childhood, Teeth and Dentistry, Medicine and Health

Thanks, Mom, for Not Telling the World I Pulled a Knife on You

If my mother had blogged about the moment in my adolescence when I threatened her with a knife, my life today might be entirely different. Read More...

Published Thu, Dec 27 2012 8:15 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, Privacy, Children and Childhood, Teenagers and Adolescence, Computers and the Internet, Blogs and Blogging (Internet), Newtown, Conn, Shooting (2012), Lanza, Adam, Huffington Post, Gawker.com

Drinking, Driving, Teenagers, and New Year's Eve

Have you asked your teenager or young college student to make an early New Year's resolution not to drink and drive? Read More...

Published Thu, Dec 27 2012 11:55 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, Teenagers and Adolescence, Drugs (Pharmaceuticals), Alcoholic Beverages, New Year, Melton, Dave, Liberty International

The Holidays After a Tragedy

As we have anguished over how to talk to our children about the Newtown shootings, another, unspoken question lingers: how do we talk to ourselves? Read More...

Published Wed, Dec 19 2012 2:47 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, Christmas, Holidays, Grief (Emotion), Newtown, Conn, Shooting (2012)

Kate Middleton's Morning Sickness: How Bad Can It Get?

Overwhelming, debilitating nausea when in some antiquated sense, pregnancy is perhaps your main purpose as a public figure? Even non-royal-watchers can sympathize with that. Read More...

Published Mon, Dec 03 2012 1:53 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, morning sickness, Gawande, Atul, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge

Too Much Stuff Last Year

On Dec. 1, in the midst of holiday shopping, I received a calendar alert from myself, sent last December: "too much stuff last year." Read More...

Published Wed, Dec 05 2012 12:45 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, Christmas, toys, gifts, Families and Family Life

'Why Does Everyone Have a Grandma and Grandpa Except Me?'

There is no road map for comforting a child who is grieving someone she has never met. Read More...

Published Thu, Dec 20 2012 2:34 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, Grandparents, Christmas, Families and Family Life, Emotions, Grief (Emotion)

Our Sons Are Not Future Killers

When it comes to ideas about the label my 11-year-old son carries, I'll take misconceptions about quirkiness and genius over an inaccurate association with mass murder any day. Read More...

Published Tue, Dec 18 2012 9:19 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Autism, parenting, Asperger's Syndrome, Mental Health and Disorders, Newtown (Conn), Newtown, Conn, Shooting (2012), Lanza, Adam