February 2015 - Motherlode - The Network of Care

What Children Think of the Internet (and Why It Matters)

Question I haven't yet asked my 5-year-old: is the Internet a more reliable source of information than I am? Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 16 2015 8:22 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Research, Computers and the Internet, Education (Pre-School), Highlights

Adopted as a Child, Now a Mother, Finally ‘Lucky’

Countless times, well-meaning friends, relatives, and acquaintances told me I was “lucky” to have been adopted, “lucky” even to live in America. Read More...

Published Sun, Feb 15 2015 5:53 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Babies and Infants, Adoptions, Child Abandonment, Highlights

Online Dating Rules for My Grandmother: Must Drive, Preferably at Night

While my grandmother and I have always been close, her online dating experiment brought us closer, mostly because she called me four or five times a week (she kept forgetting her JDate password). Read More...

Published Fri, Feb 13 2015 7:44 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Grandparents, Highlights, Dating and Relationships, Online Dating

Your Turn: A Weekly Thread, Open for Comments

Welcome to Motherlode’s weekly open thread. Do you have thoughts about the news this week, and how it affects families? A question to ask? A rant to share? This is your place. Go. Read More...

Published Thu, Feb 12 2015 11:27 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Highlights

Let Children Change

When parents keep expecting our kids to repeat old mistakes, we're saying "you can't change," or maybe "you can't change while I'm still here." Bad plan. Read More...

Published Thu, Feb 12 2015 9:01 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Highlights

Teaching Students How to Talk Less, and Think More

Parents often worry that a teacher calls on some students more than others, or that quieter children are overlooked in the classroom. Read More...

Published Thu, Feb 12 2015 7:14 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Education (K-12), Teachers and School Employees, Highlights, Lemov, Doug

Babies Who Eat to Live, Instead of the Other Way Around

Obsessing over a baby who is eating enough for her, but not enough to put her on the weight chart. Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 11 2015 8:51 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Weight, Babies and Infants, Diet and Nutrition, Highlights

The Community College/’Real College’ Divide

You know what saddened me when I worked at the community college? Meeting students who sounded apologetic for being there. They had heard the message that community college was not real college, and they listened. Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 11 2015 5:36 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Education (K-12), Colleges and Universities, Highlights, Community Colleges

The Military Marriage Trapeze Act

Stopping at a highway rest stop, my 4-year-old spotted a group of uniformed Marines paying for snacks. "Mommy!” she exclaimed, “look at ALL those daddies!” We're never really alone. Read More...

Published Tue, Feb 10 2015 3:22 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, United States Defense and Military Forces, Deployment Diary, Acrobats and Acrobatics, Trapeze School New York, United States Marine Corps

Shelf, iPad, Bed Table: Reading, January 2015

What I bought, what I read, what I thought I'd read and what I put down and never picked back up this January. Read More...

Published Tue, Feb 10 2015 12:35 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Books and Literature, Rubin, Gretchen, Gawande, Atul, Lieber, Ron, Highlights, Shafer, David, Hornby, Nick, Pinker, Steven, Carey, Peter, Kondo, Marie

Even a ‘Good Baby’ Is Exhausting

She's just a baby, albeit a premature baby, doing exactly what a baby her age should do. But that hasn't stopped us from losing sleep over her. Read More...

Published Tue, Feb 10 2015 6:54 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Babies and Infants, Highlights, Premature Babies, Adoption Journal

It’s Monday. Why Does It Always Have to Be a Snow Day?

Monday is my day off. My "me" day. Just me, and my work, alone, in the house. Unless it's a snow day — and this year, Monday always seems to be a snow day. Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 09 2015 8:29 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Highlights, Snow and Snowstorms, Freelancing, Self-Employment and Independent Contracting

Childhood Heroes: Once Self-Made, Now to the Manor Born

Once, the very act of surviving hardship shaped a hero. Now, the powerful, from "Frozen's" Elsa to "The Incredibles," are to the manor born. That's a striking cultural shift. Read More...

Published Sun, Feb 08 2015 5:08 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Books and Literature, Cartoons and Cartoonists, Highlights

Should Children Be Forced to Perform?

Children need to learn how to read, but do they really need to learn to sing Do-Re-Mi in front of two hundred people with flashing cameras? Read More...

Published Fri, Feb 06 2015 8:55 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Anxiety and Stress, Highlights

Shared Custody: So Even on Paper, So Hard on the First Night

If there was a mothering switch, I hadn’t yet found the dimmer. Read More...

Published Thu, Feb 05 2015 11:56 AM by Motherlode

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

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