May 2013 - Motherlode - The Network of Care

Lumping mothers who make more money than their spouses in with single mothers who are breadwinners through necessity as much as choice makes public opinion research on working mothers less useful. Read More...

Published Thu, May 30 2013 7:13 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: _featured

How Kai Ryssdal, Radio Host, Does It

Raising four children is a team effort, one that is helped when one parent is usually home by 5 and the other works part time. Read More...

Published Wed, May 29 2013 6:09 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized

Ending the ‘Friendly’ Fat Talk

Putting an end to the "fat talk" for our daughters' sakes — and our own. Read More...

Published Tue, May 28 2013 12:59 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, Obesity, Weight, Diet and Nutrition, Hoffman, Jan

Remembering a Child’s Grief

When I look at the images after a national tragedy, I see the children's faces — terrified, shocked, changed. I know what that feels like. Read More...

Published Mon, May 27 2013 8:16 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, Children and Childhood, Grief (Emotion)

The Last Sweet Year of High School Slips Away

The firsts, and the lasts, of an only child's senior year in high school. Read More...

Published Sun, May 26 2013 5:37 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, Education (K-12), Teenagers and Adolescence, Commencement Speeches

A Billionaire on Working Mothers: Babies Kill Women’s Focus

Paul Tudor Jones, a hedge-fund manager, on mothers in his workplace: "As soon as that baby’s lips touched that girl’s bosom, forget it.” Read More...

Published Fri, May 24 2013 4:06 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, gender, parenting, discrimination, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Babies and Infants, Women and Girls

When a Stranger Doesn’t Mean Danger

When an elderly woman asked my son and a friend for help moving a package into her home, my seventh grader saw "stranger danger" and refused. Read More...

Published Fri, May 24 2013 1:02 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, Children and Childhood

Late for School, and Who’s to Blame?

When children are regularly tardy, it's their parents' fault. Then again, maybe it's their own. Read More...

Published Fri, May 24 2013 8:57 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, _featured, Children and Childhood, Education (K-12), Families and Family Life

Boy Scouts Lift Ban on Gay Youth

The Boy Scouts of America will now allow openly gay boys to join scouting troops, but will continue to exclude gay adults as leaders — a compromise that may satisfy no one. Read More...

Published Thu, May 23 2013 3:14 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, discrimination, Boy Scouts, homosexuality

Why I Write About My Daughter’s O.C.D.

Try telling my daughter that she should keep her disorders a secret because some jerk might Google her some day. She’ll give you exactly the eye roll you deserve. Read More...

Published Thu, May 23 2013 8:11 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, _featured, Mental Health and Disorders, Children and Childhood, Writing and Writers, Essays, Tourette's Syndrome, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Not Worried About a Little Baby Fat

When I called my 5-month-old a chubby bunny, an acquaintance assured me she would "grow out of it." Read More...

Published Wed, May 22 2013 6:34 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, Obesity, Babies and Infants, Women and Girls, Baby Foods

For an Auschwitz Survivor, His Son’s Education Spelled Freedom

His graduation finally allowed his father to leave Auschwitz behind. Read More...

Published Wed, May 22 2013 5:58 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized

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