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Teaching Students How to Talk Less, and Think More

Parents often worry that a teacher calls on some students more than others, or that quieter children are overlooked in the classroom. Read More...

Published Thu, Feb 12 2015 7:14 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Education (K-12), Teachers and School Employees, Highlights, Lemov, Doug

Babies Who Eat to Live, Instead of the Other Way Around

Obsessing over a baby who is eating enough for her, but not enough to put her on the weight chart. Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 11 2015 8:51 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Weight, Babies and Infants, Diet and Nutrition, Highlights

The Community College/’Real College’ Divide

You know what saddened me when I worked at the community college? Meeting students who sounded apologetic for being there. They had heard the message that community college was not real college, and they listened. Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 11 2015 5:36 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Education (K-12), Colleges and Universities, Highlights, Community Colleges

The Military Marriage Trapeze Act

Stopping at a highway rest stop, my 4-year-old spotted a group of uniformed Marines paying for snacks. "Mommy!” she exclaimed, “look at ALL those daddies!” We're never really alone. Read More...

Published Tue, Feb 10 2015 3:22 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, United States Defense and Military Forces, Deployment Diary, Acrobats and Acrobatics, Trapeze School New York, United States Marine Corps

Shelf, iPad, Bed Table: Reading, January 2015

What I bought, what I read, what I thought I'd read and what I put down and never picked back up this January. Read More...

Published Tue, Feb 10 2015 12:35 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Books and Literature, Rubin, Gretchen, Gawande, Atul, Lieber, Ron, Highlights, Shafer, David, Hornby, Nick, Pinker, Steven, Carey, Peter, Kondo, Marie

Even a ‘Good Baby’ Is Exhausting

She's just a baby, albeit a premature baby, doing exactly what a baby her age should do. But that hasn't stopped us from losing sleep over her. Read More...

Published Tue, Feb 10 2015 6:54 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Babies and Infants, Highlights, Premature Babies, Adoption Journal

It’s Monday. Why Does It Always Have to Be a Snow Day?

Monday is my day off. My "me" day. Just me, and my work, alone, in the house. Unless it's a snow day — and this year, Monday always seems to be a snow day. Read More...

Published Mon, Feb 09 2015 8:29 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Highlights, Snow and Snowstorms, Freelancing, Self-Employment and Independent Contracting

Childhood Heroes: Once Self-Made, Now to the Manor Born

Once, the very act of surviving hardship shaped a hero. Now, the powerful, from "Frozen's" Elsa to "The Incredibles," are to the manor born. That's a striking cultural shift. Read More...

Published Sun, Feb 08 2015 5:08 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Books and Literature, Cartoons and Cartoonists, Highlights

Should Children Be Forced to Perform?

Children need to learn how to read, but do they really need to learn to sing Do-Re-Mi in front of two hundred people with flashing cameras? Read More...

Published Fri, Feb 06 2015 8:55 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Anxiety and Stress, Highlights

Shared Custody: So Even on Paper, So Hard on the First Night

If there was a mothering switch, I hadn’t yet found the dimmer. Read More...

Published Thu, Feb 05 2015 11:56 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Divorce, Separations and Annulments, Highlights

Looking to Find Your ‘Sweet Spot’ at Home and Work?

Want some help making the small shifts that make life slide into a more manageable gear? Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 04 2015 1:17 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Highlights

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)

Donating Embryos, Not ‘Giving Up Babies’

Infertility is sad and frustrating and a huge financial burden, writes an embryo donor. I love the idea that one of our frozen embryos could end that heartache for a family. Read More...

Published Tue, Feb 03 2015 2:12 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, infertility, in vitro fertilization, Babies and Infants, Highlights

Time to Leave the N.I.C.U. Behind

We’re as ready as we’re ever going to be to have Evy home with us. We want to be the ones who know her best; right now, the nurses know her much better than we do, because they care for her 85 percent of the time. Read More...

Published Tue, Feb 03 2015 8:28 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Babies and Infants, Adoptions, Adoption Journal

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

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