June 2014 - Motherlode - The Network of Care

Whose Dress Code Is It, and Why?

The best school dress codes aren't about students and sexuality, but about placing school on the list of places where there are standards, and where the freedom to do whatever we want, whenever we want shouldn't and doesn't apply. Read More...

Published Mon, Jun 16 2014 11:06 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Children and Childhood, Education (K-12), Women and Girls, Fashion and Apparel, Highlights

Ask Martha Rose Shulman

Have a question for Martha? With the Ruder family traveling next week, she'll be taking questions from readers instead. Ask Martha here, and look for answers to the most common or interesting dilemmas next Wednesday, June 25. Read More...

Published Wed, Jun 18 2014 8:52 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Martha's Greener Table

How Do You Take the Measure of a School Year?

Was the 2013-14 school year, with its Common Core, its policy debates and its snow days, a success for education, for schools, or for students? Read More...

Published Thu, Jun 19 2014 6:55 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Education (K-12), Teachers and School Employees, Highlights, Parent-Teacher Conference

Sperm Donation Puts a New Layer on an Old Friendship

Becoming the sperm donor for my friend and her wife is changing our friendship, but we're learning (the hard way) that it's strong enough to hold. Read More...

Published Tue, Jun 24 2014 8:34 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Babies and Infants, Friendship, Artificial Insemination, Sperm, Sperm Donor Diary

You Can Skip the Lines at the Theme Park, But You Can’t Skip the Lesson

Theme parks, smelling money, now make it easy for parents to pay more to avoid the sweaty lines. But what lessons do kids learn when some of them march past the others to board the rides without waiting? Read More...

Published Thu, Jun 26 2014 7:16 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Children and Childhood, Personal Finances, The Opposite of Spoiled, Amusement and Theme Parks

Who’s Your Mommy? We Don’t Know — Yet

Although Kelly is carrying their daughter, we won't know until she arrives who the biological mother is. For now, it's father's baby; mother's maybe. Read More...

Published Tue, Jun 10 2014 6:23 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, infertility, Highlights, Sperm, Genetics and Heredity, Homosexuality and Bisexuality, Sperm Donor Diary

A Lost Father, and a Daughter Who’s Not Ready to Let Him Go

The Friday before Father's Day last year, my dad, an Alzheimer's patient, wandered off from my mother at the grocery store. I'd been saying goodbye to him for almost a decade, but I wasn't ready to lose him. Read More...

Published Fri, Jun 13 2014 6:56 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Father's Day, Elderly, Highlights, Alzheimer's Disease

Monday Quandary: Nothing Left at the End of the Day

Parent seeking advice from other parents: by six or seven o'clock, I'm fried, but my children are needier than ever. How do you cope with the end of the day when the day's been especially tough? Read More...

Published Mon, Jun 30 2014 9:52 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: advice

Long After a Divorce, the Question of Family Photographs Lingers

All of the photographs from my entire childhood were taken while my parents were married. What do I do with them now? Read More...

Published Sun, Jun 01 2014 5:36 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Children and Childhood, Divorce, Separations and Annulments, Highlights

A Curriculum to Strengthen Students Against Cyberbullying

Students at the Facing History School in New York City try to understand the circumstances and decisions surrounding larger social injustices and then relate that back to their own experience. Read More...

Published Wed, Jun 04 2014 9:20 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, social media, bullies, Education (K-12), Highlights

Give Kids Your Undivided Attention — or No Attention At All

Either shut your phone and laptop down and be present, or grab the gadgets and get to work. It's the half-measures of attention that don't work for parents or kids. Read More...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2014 8:22 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Computers and the Internet, Highlights

‘You’ve Done Everything You Can’

In the past, I’d never understood people who said they were done, who gave up on their dream of having their own genetic children. But as I thought of the future, I could not imagine going on. Read More...

Published Tue, Jun 17 2014 9:26 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, in vitro fertilization, Babies and Infants, Highlights, Fertility Diary

No ‘Fat Talk’ and No Skinny Talk, Either, at Some Camps

Some camps, in an effort to end not just the "fat talk," but the mindset that leads to it, have put in place rules banning all body talk: positive, negative or in between. Read More...

Published Wed, Jun 18 2014 2:15 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Weight, Camps and Camping, Highlights

Monday Quandary: When a Child’s First Friends Fade Away

Looking for advice for parents, from parents: how do you help a child transition from the friends and playmates you produce for her to friends of her own making, and what do you do when your child is the one who is growing away? Read More...

Published Mon, Jun 23 2014 9:28 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, advice, Children and Childhood, Friendship

The First Rule of Stir-Fries: Be Prepared

Martha Rose Shulman, the Recipes for Health columnist and cookbook author, lays the groundwork for stir-fries, and answers readers’ questions. Read More...

Published Wed, Jun 25 2014 1:07 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, vegetarianism, Cooking and Cookbooks, Highlights, Vegetables, Recipes

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