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Foster Parenting: When to Explain, When to Let It Pass

In casual conversation about my sons, one foster, one biological, it can be hard to know how much to say. Read More...

Published Mon, Sep 21 2015 2:29 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, foster care, Foster Parent Diary

Letting ‘the Last 12-Year-Old in the Whole World Without a Cellphone’ Make Her Case

How do you know when your child is ready for a cell phone? Read More...

Published Sun, Sep 27 2015 2:52 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, smartphones, Teenagers and Adolescence, Highlights, Cellular Telephones, Boyd, Danah, Millennial Generation

Despite Poisoning Deaths, India’s School Lunch Program Must Go On

While the tragedy in Bihar underscore the flaws in the midday meals lunch program, it doesn’t detract from the essential goodness of the scheme. Read More...

Published Wed, Jul 17 2013 11:21 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Children and Childhood, Education (K-12), Food Contamination and Poisoning, Lunch and Breakfast Programs, Bihar (India), Poisoning and Poisons

Dear Parents: Please Ignore the Latest Research

No matter how earth-shattering that new research study looks, it probably doesn't have much to do with being a parent. Read More...

Published Fri, Jul 19 2013 5:31 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, Research, Babies and Infants, Children and Childhood

Charities That Inspire Kids: North Shore Sheltering Program and Mommas House

Inspired to help a charity "just like a movie star." Read More...

Published Wed, Dec 30 2015 10:50 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Philanthropy, Highlights, Charities That Inspire Kids

The Lessons of Winter Break: Protect Playtime, Downtime and Family Time

It's not just what our children do, but what they don't do, that counts. Read More...

Published Mon, Jan 04 2016 11:07 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Homework, parenting, Children and Childhood, Teenagers and Adolescence, Families and Family Life, Highlights, Miles, Sarah B, Pope, Denise Clark (1966- )

A Less Prominent Career, a More Primary Parent, and Satisfied

Taking the lead role in parenting, and supporting a spouse's career, isn't necessarily a compromise. Read More...

Published Sun, Jan 10 2016 3:29 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Work-Life Balance, Highlights

A Daughter Too Kind for Her Own Good

What we said was "be nice." What she heard was "you don't matter." Read More...

Published Sun, Jan 17 2016 3:54 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Children and Childhood, Women and Girls, Families and Family Life, Highlights

Loving a Grandpa Right Down to His Toes

There are some things only life can teach our children. Living with dying is one of them. Read More...

Published Sun, Jan 24 2016 3:40 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Children and Childhood, Families and Family Life, Death and Dying, Highlights

Coming of Age, Whether They Like It or Not

With a ritual like a bar mitzvah, kids learn to take on something that is extraordinarily hard, something that takes persistence and focus. Read More...

Published Sun, Jan 31 2016 5:00 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Highlights, bar/bat mitzvah

When a Public Family Is Publicly Attacked

A well known blogger's children become the target of abuse on Twitter. Should she stop sharing their family stories? Read More...

Published Fri, Feb 05 2016 12:50 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Twitter, discrimination, Children and Childhood, Blogs and Blogging (Internet), Blacks, Highlights, YouTube.com, Twitter|TWTR|NYSE, Hate Crimes

Missing a Son on the Census Form

What I did not expect was that the first thing the form asked me to do is deny my older son. "Do not count anyone living away either at college or in the Armed Forces" (or nursing homes and prisons) it said. Read More...

Published Fri, Mar 19 2010 5:31 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, census

Are Mothers Oppressed by Their Children?

French philosopher Elisabeth Badinter argues that women are being shackled and tyrannized - by their own children. Read More...

Published Tue, Mar 23 2010 1:06 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, children

‘Mixed Kids Are Always So Beautiful’

I don’t want my daughters to believe that it is their white half that makes them attractive, or that they owe anyone an answer to the question “What are you, exactly?” Read More...

Published Mon, Aug 19 2013 10:26 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, _featured, Children and Childhood, Race and Ethnicity, Hair, Beauty

10 Ways to Ease Your Child’s Preschool Separation Anxiety (and Yours)

Advice from school officials to help children, and parents, keep preschool separation in perspective and smooth the first weeks at a new school. Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 11 2013 1:43 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Children and Childhood, Highlights

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