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Found Money: Return, Rejoice or Share?

One morning last month, I turned the corner with my 8-year-old daughter and there, on the sidewalk, lay a teaching moment waiting to happen in the form of a crumpled $20 bill. Read More...

Published Thu, Oct 09 2014 7:47 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Philanthropy, Highlights, The Opposite of Spoiled

What’s Really for Breakfast?

If I were faced with a photographer coming to my house to take pictures of breakfast, I'd be very tempted to do it up right. Read More...

Published Thu, Oct 09 2014 5:01 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Cooking and Cookbooks, Highlights

Heading the PTA, and Challenging the School Board in Colorado

Being President of Jefferson County PTA in the midst of the controversy over the U.S. History curriculum has been a wild, exhilarating, if taxing and nerve-wracking, ride. Read More...

Published Wed, Oct 08 2014 2:03 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Education (K-12), Highlights, Parent-Teacher Associations, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Colorado

An Over-the Counter At-Home Conception Aid

Women exploring conception aids have a new over-the-counter option. Read More...

Published Wed, Oct 08 2014 12:44 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, infertility, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Artificial Insemination, Highlights, Sperm

As Lobbyists and Politicians Shout It Out Over School Lunch, Can Parents Be Heard?

Big Food lobbying dollars and heated partisan politics threaten the first major nutritional overhaul of school meals in decades. Can parents be heard above the din? Read More...

Published Wed, Oct 08 2014 6:46 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Food, Education (K-12), Lunch and Breakfast Programs, Highlights, School Nutrition Assn, Lobbying and Lobbyists, Confessore, Nicholas

With Black Students, Some Schools Are More Ready to Punish Than Help

My son's school seemed to see him as a bad child, not a child with needs the school could help to address. Read More...

Published Tue, Oct 07 2014 1:41 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, foster care, Education (K-12), Race and Ethnicity, School Discipline (Students), Blacks, Highlights

The Surprising Value of Journaling an Ordinary Day

If you keep a journal, it's not the record of the momentous events that will bring you the most pleasure later. It's the little things. Read More...

Published Tue, Oct 07 2014 11:26 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Highlights, Diaries

‘Where Are You Delivering?’ Omaha.

We are traveling – by car, as a family – 1,200 miles so that I can give birth in Omaha, which is where I am from. The waiting lists to be a part of midwifery practices on the East Coast and the overbooked schedules of its clinicians wore me down. Read...

Published Tue, Oct 07 2014 8:18 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, hospitals, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Children and Childhood, Bahney, Anna, Omaha (Neb), Destination: Delivery, Midwestern States (US), Nebraska

Challenged by My Catholic School’s Choices, and Challenging It in Return

When I first heard what happened to Barb Webb, a teacher at my former Catholic high school, who was fired after nine years after she announced her pregnancy, I was shocked—and then I wasn’t. Read More...

Published Mon, Oct 06 2014 12:54 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Unions and Domestic Partnerships, Highlights, Roman Catholic Church, Private and Sectarian Schools, Homosexuality and Bisexuality, Detroit (Mich)

Picture Day Quandary: Can She Wear the Tiara?

A reader asks: my 7-year-old daughter announced last week that she would be wearing a tiara for picture day. This was not ok by me, but I decided to keep silent. What would you have done? Read More...

Published Mon, Oct 06 2014 8:59 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, advice, Highlights

The ‘S’ in Sexting Isn’t the Problem. It’s the ‘T’ That Should Worry Parents.

"I’ll show you mine, you show yours" has been around for a long time. It’s the medium that makes it different and scary. Read More...

Published Mon, Oct 06 2014 7:15 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Sex, parenting, Research, Teenagers and Adolescence, Highlights, Text Messaging

Stepmother: Not Evil. Not Perfect. Not Mom.

I was certain I would be the perfect stepmother, part Mary Poppins, part Maria from "The Sound of Music," as I helped to intertwine our families. Read More...

Published Sun, Oct 05 2014 5:54 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Divorce, Separations and Annulments, Families and Family Life, Highlights

Not a ‘PTA Mom’

Before my son started school, I shared my parents' hippie view of the P.T.A. as a perfect-parent filled hassle and just another part of The Establishment trying to squelch creativity out of learning. Read More...

Published Fri, Oct 03 2014 8:57 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Education (K-12), Highlights, Parent-Teacher Associations

The Family Table: Slow-Cooker Tacos, Sesame Noodles and Meatloaf

What family dinner really looks like at our house: tacos, noodles, slow-cooker curry with mixed success and a meatloaf from the freezer. Read More...

Published Fri, Oct 03 2014 8:13 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Cooking and Cookbooks, Highlights, Dinnerlode, Clark, Melissa, Sifton, Sam, Hesser, Amanda

In Defense of Sparkle Science

It's not necessary to create an arbitrary dividing line between "serious" science and everything else. For some children, learning about the science behind sparkly things is their way in to a whole world of technology. Read More...

Published Thu, Oct 02 2014 2:36 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Girl Scouts, Women and Girls, Science and Technology, Highlights, Robots and Robotics, Pittsburgh (Pa), Cosmetics and Toiletries

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