February 2015 - Motherlode - The Network of Care

Small, Successful Steps Toward Finding Your Groove

Readers road-test Christine Carter's simple strategies for settling into a happy and functional routine, both at home and work. Read More...

Published Fri, Feb 27 2015 5:29 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Work-Life Balance, E-Mail, Highlights

Home Schooling, and Teaching, a Child with Down Syndrome

In school, nothing our son did was seen as typical. At home, I’m able to see him as more than a diagnosis, and he’s able to learn. Read More...

Published Sun, Feb 01 2015 5:09 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Down syndrome, Education (K-12), Highlights

Time to Leave the N.I.C.U. Behind

We’re as ready as we’re ever going to be to have Evy home with us. We want to be the ones who know her best; right now, the nurses know her much better than we do, because they care for her 85 percent of the time. Read More...

Published Tue, Feb 03 2015 8:28 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Babies and Infants, Adoptions, Adoption Journal

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

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

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

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

Love, Panic, Adoption and Jerk-Chicken Knishes

I hope most of the stares Evy gets are because she's adorable, but I know that many of them will be because she's a dark-skinned child with white parents. Read More...

Published Tue, Feb 17 2015 7:06 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Babies and Infants, Race and Ethnicity, Adoptions, Premature Babies, Adoption Journal

An Open Egg Donor, Now Reversing the Role

I chose my son by clicking and unclicking a series of boxes, looking for a sperm donor. Fifteen years ago, the roles were reversed: I was an egg donor. Read More...

Published Thu, Feb 19 2015 5:51 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, infertility, Adoptions, Highlights, Sperm

Grandmother, Surrogate Mother

An update from a mother whose own mother carried her daughter's baby, and gave birth to her own grandchild. Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 23 2015 9:43 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Surrogate Motherhood, Highlights

Motherlode’s ‘Celebrity Class of Commenters’

It's been said many times that "the best thing about Motherlode is the comments." Read More...

Published Thu, Feb 26 2015 9:39 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, new york times, Blogs and Blogging (Internet), Highlights, Sullivan, Margaret M

Want More Vaccinated Children? End Religious and Personal Exemptions

There is no need to silence or punish parents who choose not to vaccinate their children. If we end religious and personal belief exemptions to vaccine requirements for public school attendance, most parents will make a different choice. Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2015 4:53 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Education (K-12), Vaccination and Immunization, Highlights, Epidemics, McCarthy, Jenny

Looking to Find Your ‘Sweet Spot’ at Home and Work?

Want some help making the small shifts that make life slide into a more manageable gear? Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 04 2015 1:17 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Highlights

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

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

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