January 2015 - Motherlode - The Network of Care

Child With Symptoms? App Lets You Text Doctors, With No Guarantees

A variety of apps and online services put you in touch with medical providers, but users should be aware of who they're talking to (or texting with). Read More...

Published Mon, Jan 12 2015 1:28 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Doctors, Medicine and Health, Highlights

Students Eat More Healthy Foods When Recess Is Held Before Lunch

In studies, giving students recess immediately before lunch rather than immediately after was correlated with a decrease in food waste and an increase in the amount of fruits and vegetables eaten at lunch. But many schools still resist the change. Read...

Published Wed, Jan 14 2015 7:51 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Research, Children and Childhood, Education (K-12), Lunch and Breakfast Programs

When Did ‘Teaching Independence’ Become ‘Possible Neglect’?

Parents in Maryland are being investigated for allowing their children to walk home from a park unsupervised. When did we abandon this idea that our children should learn to move about in the world without our hovering presence, and what have we lost...

Published Thu, Jan 15 2015 2:41 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Child Abandonment, Highlights, Maryland, Walking

Do I Need Screen Time Rules for Other People’s Children, Too?

It’s my house and my rules, but I’m uncomfortable snatching away a prized possession a child brings over. I'm also uncomfortable with the recent sleepover in which every child spent the night buried in her own screen. Read More...

Published Mon, Jan 19 2015 12:31 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, advice, Computer and Video Games

Free of Gluten, but Not of Arsenic (or of Guilt)

For gluten-free families, the increasing concerns about arsenic and rice are a source of worry and guilt. But how much should parents blame themselves? Read More...

Published Wed, Jan 21 2015 2:24 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Food, Celiac Disease, Gluten, Highlights, Rice

Changing Early Pregnancy Etiquette: Share Good News, and Bad

When we decided not to tell friends and family about my pregnancy until after the first trimester, we never paused to consider how much we might need those people if something did actually go wrong. Read More...

Published Sun, Jan 25 2015 6:24 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Highlights

How Janice Dean, Meteorologist and Mother, Does It

If you had told me before I had kids that the chance to watch "Parenthood" on the DVR would be the lap of luxury, well.... Read More...

Published Wed, Jan 28 2015 12:26 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Families and Family Life, Weather, Work-Life Balance, How I Do It, Fox News Channel, Kelly, Megyn

Daughter to Disney: I’ll Take the Tiara, You Keep the Prince

Answering questions from the Fairy-Godmothers-in-Training at the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique, a tiny princess reveals that tiaras and hair extensions didn’t change the kid underneath. Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 30 2015 8:11 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Walt Disney Company|DIS|NYSE, Women and Girls, Walt Disney Company, Highlights, Amusement and Theme Parks

Ten Tips for Happiness, on a Postcard From the Past

Advice from a stack of postcards hidden in a closet years ago: Encourage your children in what they want, not what you want. Also, keep a good figure. Read More...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2015 6:10 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Grandparents, Highlights

Resolutions for a Year of Change in a Military Family

With deployment hanging over our heads, 2015 will come with incredible challenges for our marriage, our children and ourselves. I'm resolving to take care of myself as well as my children, accept help when we need it, give it where we can and appreciate...

Published Tue, Jan 06 2015 7:13 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, New Year, United States Defense and Military Forces, Deployment Diary

‘Redshirting’ Kindergarten-Age Kids Can Lead to Regrets

Because wealthier, better educated parents ‘redshirt’ while others don't, a kindergarten classroom can include 4-year-olds who have never been to preschool and can’t sit still, and 6-year-olds who are fluently reading chapter books and ready for advanced...

Published Wed, Jan 07 2015 12:30 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Education (K-12), Education (Pre-School), Highlights

Selling the Merits of Sleep

Sleep has a marketing problem. Why don't we remind our children of how good it feels, and how good it is for us, instead of the way we tend to insist on it? Read More...

Published Fri, Jan 09 2015 7:09 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Highlights

Harsh Critics in Public Spaces, Judging Only What They See

Strangers like to tell me what I’m doing wrong as a parent, or at least give me hard, critical looks, all the time. But there's a big part of our story they often don't know. Read More...

Published Mon, Jan 12 2015 9:56 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Autism, parenting, Down syndrome, Disabilities, Children and Childhood, Special Education, Highlights

New Report Urges Less Intervention in Births

"If overtreatment is defined as instances in which an individual may have fared as well or better with less or perhaps no intervention," says a new report which collects and interprets the research regarding the hormonal physiology of childbirth...

Published Tue, Jan 13 2015 8:51 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Research, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Babies and Infants, Highlights

Skipping School for Vacation: Good for Families, or Bad for Students?

I’m a parent. I have taken my children out of school for family events and other trips. I am also an educator, and I have seen the havoc these absences can wreak on students and their teachers. Read More...

Published Thu, Jan 15 2015 7:54 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Education (K-12), Holidays and Special Occasions, Highlights, Parent-Teacher Conference, Absenteeism and Truancy

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