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Not Buying (or Bankrolling) the Easter Bunny

My friends tell me that the Easter Bunny is all about wonder and magic that I'm too much of a killjoy to appreciate. Read More...

Published Fri, Mar 29 2013 10:29 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, gifts, _featured, Families and Family Life, Easter and Holy Week, Lunar New Year

If Children Had Google Glass

If you had Google Glass, what would your children do with it? Read More...

Published Thu, Mar 28 2013 2:02 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, Children and Childhood, Computers and the Internet, Google Inc|GOOG|NASDAQ, Google Inc

A Narrow Escape, and Lasting Guilt

When I hear about a tragedy caused by a moment of parental carelessness — a hot car, an unlocked pool gate — I don't judge the parents. I was lucky. Read More...

Published Tue, Mar 26 2013 9:04 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Essays

Raising Children Who Will Speak Up to Prevent Rape, Not Defend It

Though there is a verdict in the Steubenville case, we're a long way from the end of the culture that allowed it to happen. Read More...

Published Tue, Mar 19 2013 10:38 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, Twitter, Children and Childhood, Sex Crimes, Social Networking (Internet), Steubenville (Ohio), Mays, Trenton, Richmond, Ma'lik

Kids in the Kitchen: Broiled Fish With Chermoula

Chermoula: a huge success. Salmon for the child who doesn't like it anymore? Less so. Read More...

Published Wed, Aug 19 2015 12:34 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Cooking and Cookbooks, Highlights, Kids Cook, Seafood

Shelf, iPad, Bed Table: An End-of-Summer Reading List

Any month includes new work by Shirley Jackson and Laura Ingalls Wilder is a good month. Read More...

Published Mon, Aug 24 2015 8:24 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Books and Literature, Wilder, Laura Ingalls, Highlights, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (Book), Smith, Pamela, Piazza, Jo, Sykes, Lucy, A Window Opens (Book), Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings (Book), Keyes, Marian, Fowler, Karen Joy, Jackson, Shirley, Egan, Elisabeth (Author), Shipstead, Maggie

An Only Child, Happy With an Only Child

Lauren Sandler, an only child, chose to have only one child. Here's why. Read More...

Published Wed, Jun 12 2013 2:38 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, Families and Family Life, Sandler, Lauren

Leave Family Playtime Alone

Do parents really need so many prescriptions for how we "should" spend our time with our kids? Read More...

Published Wed, Apr 24 2013 8:42 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, Playgrounds, Children and Childhood

Are We Helping Our Kids or Nagging Them?

When we correct a child too often, the message is that she'll never get it right. Read More...

Published Fri, Jun 05 2015 10:58 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Education (K-12), Highlights, Voice and Speech

Camp After a Transplant: Harder on Mother Than Daughter

The entire point of my daughter's transplant was not just to save her life, but to give her a full one. I had to let her go to camp. Read More...

Published Thu, Jun 11 2015 2:22 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Camps and Camping, Highlights

I Believe in Family Dinner. We Just Don’t Achieve It Very Often.

I've surrendered to the demands of sports and activities. Now, instead of aspiring to a single, evening meal, I feed my kids like hobbits. Read More...

Published Thu, Jun 20 2013 1:01 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting, Families and Family Life

$55 Billion: The Cost of Summer 2013

When you add up the camps, sports, programs, pool memberships and child care, how much will summer cost your family this year? Read More...

Published Thu, Jul 18 2013 5:18 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Child Care, parenting, _featured, Families and Family Life

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- )

Six Steps to Teaching Children About the Stock Market

The goal of letting kids invest is to teach them that buying individual stocks is essentially gambling before there's much money involved. Read More...

Published Wed, Jan 06 2016 12:37 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Personal Finances, The Opposite of Spoiled, Stocks and Bonds

Charities That Inspire Kids: The League of YES

Able children help children with disabilities join in the game. Read More...

Published Sat, Jan 02 2016 10:56 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, baseball, Children and Childhood, Philanthropy, Highlights, Charities That Inspire Kids

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