Sign in
NetworkOfCare.org
Motherlode
Blog Help
Motherlode
Home
Syndication
RSS for Posts
Atom
RSS for Comments
Recent Posts
Well Family: A New Name and New Home for Motherlode
Whether Our Foster Child Stays or Goes, He Is Loved
The School Conference Blues
When Another Child Wants to Be Friends and Yours Does Not
A Family Adds Five Children, Special Needs and All
Tags
_featured
Adoptions
Autism
Babies and Infants
Books and Literature
Child Care
Children and Childhood
Christmas
Cooking and Cookbooks
Education (K-12)
Families and Family Life
Food
Highlights
infertility
parental quandary
parenting
Pregnancy
Pregnancy and Childbirth
Research
Sleep
teenagers
Teenagers and Adolescence
Uncategorized
Women and Girls
Work-Life Balance
View more
Archives
March 2016 (2)
February 2016 (18)
January 2016 (19)
December 2015 (22)
November 2015 (24)
October 2015 (31)
September 2015 (26)
August 2015 (26)
July 2015 (28)
June 2015 (33)
May 2015 (38)
April 2015 (43)
March 2015 (45)
February 2015 (38)
January 2015 (44)
December 2014 (60)
November 2014 (51)
October 2014 (72)
September 2014 (41)
August 2014 (33)
July 2014 (36)
June 2014 (40)
May 2014 (37)
April 2014 (51)
March 2014 (41)
February 2014 (44)
January 2014 (44)
December 2013 (43)
November 2013 (38)
October 2013 (49)
September 2013 (46)
August 2013 (40)
July 2013 (40)
June 2013 (39)
May 2013 (42)
April 2013 (38)
March 2013 (45)
February 2013 (47)
January 2013 (43)
December 2012 (36)
November 2012 (32)
October 2012 (48)
September 2012 (41)
August 2012 (49)
July 2012 (42)
June 2012 (53)
May 2012 (62)
April 2012 (57)
March 2012 (61)
February 2012 (48)
January 2012 (47)
December 2011 (42)
November 2011 (38)
October 2011 (45)
September 2011 (24)
August 2011 (24)
July 2011 (35)
June 2011 (50)
May 2011 (30)
April 2011 (36)
March 2011 (33)
February 2011 (33)
January 2011 (29)
December 2010 (34)
November 2010 (34)
October 2010 (34)
September 2010 (31)
August 2010 (34)
July 2010 (36)
June 2010 (38)
May 2010 (35)
April 2010 (37)
March 2010 (43)
February 2010 (27)
January 2010 (28)
December 2009 (32)
November 2009 (37)
October 2009 (33)
Sort by:
Most Recent
|
Most Viewed
|
Most Commented
Thanks, Mom, for Not Telling the World I Pulled a Knife on You
If my mother had blogged about the moment in my adolescence when I threatened her with a knife, my life today might be entirely different. Read More...
Published
Thu, Dec 27 2012 8:15 AM
by
Motherlode
Filed under:
Uncategorized
,
parenting
,
Privacy
,
Children and Childhood
,
Teenagers and Adolescence
,
Computers and the Internet
,
Blogs and Blogging (Internet)
,
Newtown, Conn, Shooting (2012)
,
Lanza, Adam
,
Huffington Post
,
Gawker.com
Drinking, Driving, Teenagers, and New Year's Eve
Have you asked your teenager or young college student to make an early New Year's resolution not to drink and drive? Read More...
Published
Thu, Dec 27 2012 11:55 AM
by
Motherlode
Filed under:
Uncategorized
,
parenting
,
Teenagers and Adolescence
,
Drugs (Pharmaceuticals)
,
Alcoholic Beverages
,
New Year
,
Melton, Dave
,
Liberty International
In an Orphanage, But Not Orphaned, in Sierra Leone
I thought overseas adoption would be my route to parenthood, but when I visited Sierra Leone, I found the situation there more complex than it seemed. Read More...
Published
Thu, Dec 18 2014 10:03 AM
by
Motherlode
Filed under:
parenting
,
Adoptions
,
Orphans and Orphanages
,
Highlights
,
Sierra Leone
How Did Your Children's School Handle the Newtown Shootings?
If your children's school discussed the shootings in Newtown, Conn., are you pleased with the way it was handled, and did it go according to plan? Read More...
Published
Mon, Dec 17 2012 11:54 AM
by
Motherlode
Filed under:
Uncategorized
,
parenting
,
School Shootings
,
Children and Childhood
,
Newtown, Conn, Shooting (2012)
,
Rogers, Fred
Home-Schooling, Comic Con Style (Part 2)
Roaming Comic Con in search of educational titles, and finding a surprising bounty of social studies, language, music, health and even higher ed. Read More...
Published
Wed, Oct 17 2012 7:56 AM
by
Motherlode
Filed under:
Uncategorized
,
parenting
,
Education (K-12)
,
Books and Literature
,
Graphic Novels
,
Comic Books and Strips
This Veterans Day, Read (and Listen to) Family Stories
Military experience was once common. Many of us grew up surrounded by parents and family who had served. Now, military life seems removed from the everyday for many of us. Here, for Veteran's Day, stories of military family. Read More...
Published
Tue, Nov 11 2014 10:13 AM
by
Motherlode
Filed under:
parenting
,
Highlights
,
Veterans Day (US)
,
Defense and Military Forces
,
Veterans
,
Reserves (Military)
How Can a Stay-at-Home Mom Get Back to Work?
I think Yahoo's Marisa Mayer was fortunate to understand what I did not grasp 10 years ago - that if she chose to step away from her career to have a child, she might never get it back. Read More...
Published
Fri, Oct 12 2012 12:51 PM
by
Motherlode
Filed under:
Uncategorized
,
parenting
,
Children and Childhood
,
Labor and Jobs
,
Women and Girls
,
Mayer, Marissa
,
Careers and Professions
If My Son Loves Football, Can He Still Love Me?
My husband and I consider our family progressive. We're all for boys in pink playing with dolls. But progressive really means letting your children choose what to love, and my son loves football. Read More...
Published
Sun, Aug 10 2014 6:16 AM
by
Motherlode
Filed under:
parenting
,
football
,
Highlights
,
Homosexuality and Bisexuality
Rent a Toy, Learn a Lesson
What would children learn if we made them give away some of their favorite toys after a month? Maybe that ownership and appreciation aren't linked. Read More...
Published
Thu, Aug 14 2014 7:11 AM
by
Motherlode
Filed under:
parenting
,
toys
,
Lieber, Ron
,
Highlights
,
The Opposite of Spoiled
What Your Teens Are Reading
Doesn't anyone read "Anne of Green Gables" anymore? Read More...
Published
Tue, May 17 2011 1:27 PM
by
Motherlode
Filed under:
Uncategorized
,
Books
Losing Custody Because She Has Cancer
A North Carolina woman is ordered to send her children to their father in Chicago because a judge fears she will become too ill to care for them. Read More...
Published
Thu, May 12 2011 11:21 AM
by
Motherlode
Filed under:
Uncategorized
,
custody
,
Breast Cancer
My Baby, the Star
A baby has his "Schwab's soda fountain" moment of fame. Read More...
Published
Tue, Aug 14 2012 12:55 PM
by
Motherlode
Filed under:
Uncategorized
,
babies
,
child actors
,
commercials
,
casting calls
,
Lynn Messina
Compare and Contrast: College-Ready First Graders or ‘Godlike Cherubs’?
Two articles will make you think about what’s “natural” for your family, and how that might be different from what works for others. Read More...
Published
Wed, Feb 04 2015 10:33 AM
by
Motherlode
Filed under:
education
,
parenting
,
Children and Childhood
,
Highlights
,
Erard, Michael
,
Lancy, David F
,
The Anthropology of Childhood: Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings (Book)
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
Let Sleepy Students Lie
High-achieving teens are getting, on average, six hours of sleep a night. They should be getting more than nine. Read More...
Published
Mon, Oct 24 2011 4:57 AM
by
Motherlode
Filed under:
Uncategorized
,
Homework
,
Teens
,
Sleep
,
amy chua
,
tiger mom
,
brain
,
Trinity School
,
Deerfield Academy
« First
...
< Previous
127
128
129
130
131
Next >
...
Last »