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Who Best to Plan a Surprise Party for a Teenager? Not Mom.

I wanted to know the right people to invite to my daughter's 16th birthday party; the right cake to bake; the right music to play. But I didn't. I did know enough to know who would. Read More...

Published Wed, May 21 2014 6:44 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, birthdays, Parties (Social), Teenagers and Adolescence, Highlights

Imagine No Possessions, and No Moving Van, Too

Were we really going to spend $6,500 to move a bunch of plastic and cardboard, a worn couch and IKEA shelves? Read More...

Published Tue, May 20 2014 7:32 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Moving and Moving Industry, Highlights

‘You’re Not My Real Mother’

"You're not my real mother." True words in one sense, but words that are still hard for an adoptive mother to hear. Read More...

Published Sun, May 18 2014 5:40 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Adoptions, Highlights

The New Inequality for Toddlers: Less Income; More Ritalin

A rare, ironic example of low-income children getting more of something than they need: 15,000 American toddlers, many on Medicaid, are being medicated for A.D.H.D.-like symptoms. Read More...

Published Fri, May 16 2014 6:47 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Medicaid, Children and Childhood, Income Inequality, Education (Pre-School), Highlights, Ritalin (Drug)

Parents Respond to The ‘Frozen’ Frenzy

"Frozen" has gone from movie to phenomenon, at least in part because the passion at its heart is one children of both genders can relate to. Read More...

Published Fri, May 16 2014 2:25 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Movies, parenting, Walt Disney Company|DIS|NYSE, Walt Disney Company, Highlights, Menzel, Idina, Frozen (Movie)

One Daughter, One Mother, Two Wheelchairs and Nothing Remarkable

Sharing the same disability has undoubtedly united me with my mother in unusual ways, but we want the world to know that there is really nothing unusual about who we are. Read More...

Published Fri, May 16 2014 8:39 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Highlights, Adaptive Parenting

Reading Experience May Change the Brains of Dyslexic Students

Recent research suggests that the difficulties dyslexia creates with reading may not be hard-wired. Instead, experience may play a big role in exacerbating reading problems and, potentially, in easing them. Read More...

Published Thu, May 15 2014 3:19 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Research, Dyslexia, Language and Languages, Paul, Annie Murphy, Brilliant, Adaptive Parenting, Georgetown University

When Your Teenager Wants a Car: The Money Conversations

Four questions to ask before agreeing to let a teenager have a car and four possible approaches to paying for it. Read More...

Published Thu, May 15 2014 8:39 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Automobiles, Automobile Safety Features and Defects, Highlights, The Opposite of Spoiled, Ramsey, Dave

The Language of Autism: Disease or Difference?

The debate over whether autism is a disease to be cured or a variation to be celebrated is an abstraction, utterly disconnected to our day-to-day experience. To describe that, I cannot avoid the lexicon of illness. Read More...

Published Wed, May 14 2014 2:00 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Autism, parenting, Highlights

Looking for a Family That Is Looking to Eat More Vegetables

Want cookbook author and Times columnist Martha Rose Shulman to help your family eat more healthily? We're looking for you. Read More...

Published Wed, May 14 2014 1:57 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Food, vegetarianism, Cooking and Cookbooks, Diet and Nutrition, Highlights

5 Things to Consider in Choosing a Camp for a Special-Needs Child

Sending a child with special needs, physical or otherwise, to summer camp isn't just a matter of filling out the forms. Read More...

Published Wed, May 14 2014 7:20 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Highlights, Adaptive Parenting

Talking to Children About Their Disabilities, With Metaphors and Minecraft

Those of us who have kids with disabilities in our lives spend countless hours discussing them, yet, we rarely, if ever, talk directly to children themselves about their challenges. These conversations can be scarier for the grown-ups than they are for...

Published Tue, May 13 2014 11:54 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Autism, parenting, Disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Dyslexia, Asperger's Syndrome, Children and Childhood, Highlights

You’ll Make New Friends. Maybe.

My son is a great child who worked hard to make the friends he has. What if I'm lying when I tell him he will be able to do it again? Read More...

Published Tue, May 13 2014 6:11 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Families and Family Life, Moving and Moving Industry, Diary of an International Move

When Kids Would Rather Play Computer Games Than Code Them

Coding is growing as a kids' activity, but as trendy as it is, it's not easy. Most children won't seize on coding games with the same enthusiasm as they did Minecraft. To engage kids in what's happening behind the screen takes work. Read...

Published Mon, May 12 2014 10:25 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Children and Childhood, Education (K-12), Computers and the Internet, Highlights, Code.org

Why I Play the Mom Card

When critics (usually men) want to delegitimize my views, they often refer to me as a “mommy blogger," relegating me to an imagined intellectual wasteland of sippy cups and Legos. But being a mother animates and inspires my activism. Read More.....

Published Mon, May 12 2014 4:51 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Food, Education (K-12), Blogs and Blogging (Internet), Women's Rights, Highlights, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Elias, Bettina

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