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When It's Time for the Neighborhood Children to Go Home

If the neighborhood kids are crashing your parties, it's fine (and right) to speak up. Read More...

Published Thu, Jun 07 2012 1:54 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, neighbors, etiquette, parental quandary

Would You Want To Read Your Fetus's DNA?

If DNA sequencing a fetus becomes as routine as a blood test, what will that mean? Read More...

Published Thu, Jun 07 2012 11:16 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, DNA, prenatal testing, DNA sequence fetus

What Will You and Your Children Read This Summer?

What's your family's summer reading plan - and if you've got those dreaded summer reading time charts, how do you cope? Read More...

Published Wed, Jun 06 2012 7:22 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Jodi Picoult, Motherlode Book Club, summer vacation, Carl Hiaasen, summer reading, summer slide, summer learning

When Teasing Is Loving, and When It's Not

What are the lines that distinguish teasing that draws us closer, and teasing that pushes us apart? Read More...

Published Wed, Jun 06 2012 2:12 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Siblings, families, teasing

Because of Katie, Children With Severe Disabilities Can Live at Home

Most Americans have never heard of Katie Beckett. But because her mother persuaded Ronald Reagan to waive Medicaid rules on her behalf, my severely disabled son can be raised at home. Read More...

Published Wed, Jun 06 2012 7:17 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Autism, Disabilities, Americans with Disabilities Act, Medicaid, caregivers, Katie Beckett

Disney Limits Junk-Food Ads

Maybe it takes a powerful corporation to take on powerful corporations. Read More...

Published Tue, Jun 05 2012 1:53 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Food, nutrition, advertising, junk food, childhood obesity, Disney, Wal-Mart Stores Inc|WMT|NYSE, Walt Disney Company|DIS|NYSE

How Can Facebook Safely Add Under-13s?

If Facebook opens up to children under 13, how can it do the job right? Read More...

Published Tue, Jun 05 2012 9:11 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Facebook, online monitoring, internet safety, cyber-bullying, Facebook Inc|FB|NASDAQ

To the Rude Parent at the Recital

My child deserved the same ocean of faces and thunderous applause that yours got, but he didn't get it - because most parents left after their kids performed. Read More...

Published Tue, Jun 05 2012 7:34 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, etiquette, mannes, rude parents, performances, récitals, setting example for kids, Risa McDonnell

Amid Million Dollar PTAs, a School Fights to Keep Its Library

Try raising $40K annually to keep your school library: "Our families are tapped out. I just don't see how we can sustain this frantic pace." Read More...

Published Mon, Jun 04 2012 7:36 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Schools, segregation, socio-economic diversity, school funding, diversity

Are Single-Sex Groups Better for Preventing Dating Violence?

Teen dating violence prevention programs now start for kids as young as 11 - but are they better done with the two sexes together, or apart? Read More...

Published Sun, Jun 03 2012 7:40 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, teenagers, sex ed, tweens, pre-teens, preteens, dating violence, dating

How Do You Shoo the Neighborhood Kids Out of the Yard?

How do you tell the friendly neighborhood kids that sometimes, a backyard gathering is just for family? Read More...

Published Fri, Jun 01 2012 8:56 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, free-range kids, manners, etiquette, parental quandary, backyard

Raising Interfaith Kids When Hindu Meets Catholic

Can you raise children with "faith" in a household with two very separate religious traditions? Read More...

Published Fri, Jun 01 2012 11:23 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Religion, parental quandary, interfaith parenting

When Bedwetting Isn't an 'Accident'

Many children wet the bed because they're constipated, and their parents and doctors don't know it. Read More...

Published Fri, Jun 01 2012 10:55 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, withholding, miralax, children Miralax, Constipation, Bedwetting, It's No Accident, Steve Hodges

What if the City Banned Sales of Junk Food to Minors?

After Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's proposal to ban the sale of large sugary drinks in some locations, wondering how a ban that was both more limited, and more expansive, might be received. Read More...

Published Thu, May 31 2012 5:12 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, snacks, Obesity, childhood obesity, Bloomberg bans large soda sales, soda

Is It Too Late to Send Myself to Camp?

I'm almost sold on the benefits of summer camp for children, but I'm still not ready to make mine go. Read More...

Published Thu, May 31 2012 6:53 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, summer camp, independence, Daniel Fleshler, camp, Michael Thompson, sleep away camp, helicopter parent

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