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A Surprising Debate: The Front Seat

There's no definitive law, and no overriding opinion, about when a child is old enough or big enough to ride in a car's front seat. Read More...

Published Thu, Jul 12 2012 2:17 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parental quandary, car seats, car safety

An Internet Star's Mom Responds

"This is a tremendous opportunity that we believe she has been given, even though it wasn't exactly the way we might have wanted, with all the criticism." Read More...

Published Fri, Mar 25 2011 9:53 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Internet, child stars, rebecca black

Advice for Parents Touring Colleges: Don’t Talk

When I took my oldest child for her college tours, I tried to chat with my fellow parents. Now I know better. Read More...

Published Fri, May 02 2014 9:35 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Colleges and Universities, Admissions Standards, Highlights, Parenting After Senior Year

Whose Dress Code Is It, and Why?

The best school dress codes aren't about students and sexuality, but about placing school on the list of places where there are standards, and where the freedom to do whatever we want, whenever we want shouldn't and doesn't apply. Read More...

Published Mon, Jun 16 2014 11:06 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Children and Childhood, Education (K-12), Women and Girls, Fashion and Apparel, Highlights

Getting Ready for Baby No. 2

What advice do you have about going from one child to two? Read More...

Published Wed, Oct 07 2009 9:47 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Toddlers, Pregnancy

WIC Works, But Enrollment Is Down

Families participating in WIC have better odds of good mental and physical health - but complex requirements and lack of outreach may mean fewer women participate. Read More...

Published Thu, May 10 2012 11:13 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, poverty, childhood obesity, childhood poverty, WIC

United States Ranks Last on ***-Feeding Support

A new Save the Children report ranks the United States last among 36 industrialized nations on its ***-feeding policies. Are you surprised? Read More...

Published Tue, May 15 2012 7:50 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, flexible workplace policies, nursing, Breastfeeding, Economics, working mothers, policy

A Killer's Parents

Thinking of Jared Loughner's family. Read More...

Published Tue, Jan 11 2011 12:31 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, schizophrenia, jared loughner

Free Time for Parents

A poll finds that parents have 90 minutes, scattered through the day, all to themselves. Read More...

Published Tue, Feb 01 2011 9:50 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parenting

The Princess Wears Plaid

Books, and other ways, to push back against the pink. Read More...

Published Thu, Feb 03 2011 1:28 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Peggy Orenstein, princesses

In Flexible-Work Debates, Parents Have Unique Position

When "workplace flexibility" becomes a battle between a 20-something with Mandarin lessons and a venture capitalist taking his children to swim class, we lose sight of the workers most in need of flexibility. Read More...

Published Sat, Sep 01 2012 2:18 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Life/Work Balance, low income families, working mothers, the Conflict, Why Women Can't Have It All

Summer Car Safety: Look Before You Lock, and More

The terrible accusations against the father alleged to have intentionally left his toddler to die in a hot car in Georgia make it too easy to mentally file the death under the category "things that will never happen to my family." Read More...

Published Fri, Jul 11 2014 1:21 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Children and Childhood, Automobile Safety Features and Defects, Traffic Accidents and Safety, Deaths (Fatalities), Highlights

Learning About Loss

Teaching lessons you wish they never had to learn. Read More...

Published Tue, Apr 26 2011 1:00 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, death

Parent on a Smartphone, With Almost No Guilt

Smartphones can make us more present as parents—or not. Read More...

Published Wed, Jul 09 2014 11:14 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, smartphones, Highlights

Save the Mothers

A reminder that most of our daily struggles are real luxuries. Read More...

Published Tue, May 03 2011 9:33 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, charity, Save the Children

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