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The New iPad App You’ll Want Grandma to Download

Ustyme allows grandparents and distant friends to share books and games with children over video, but is smart enough to make that connection and get out of the way. Read More...

Published Fri, Sep 27 2013 12:54 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Grandparents, iPad, Children and Childhood, Computer and Video Games, Mobile Applications, Highlights, Apple Inc, Apple Inc|AAPL|NASDAQ

Don’t Dress Your Toddler Like a Hipster

The stylish children on fashion Tumblrs don’t look like children so much as eerie, miniature-sized versions of hipsters and socialites, and they are splashed across social media to inspire the style of actual grown-ups. Read More...

Published Sun, Sep 29 2013 5:37 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, social media, Children and Childhood, Fashion and Apparel, Highlights, Shoes and Boots

Why Take Our Children to Work?

Are you "observing" Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day? What message do you want to send your kids about life and work? Read More...

Published Wed, Apr 21 2010 10:21 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Workplace, Stay-at-Home Parents, sons, daughters

Making College Applications a Full-Time Job

Is it the college admission process that has gotten out of control, or today's parents? Read More...

Published Fri, Apr 30 2010 7:03 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, College

When Baby is Allergic to Kitty

Parenting is about sacrifice. Rachel Aydt learned that when her son's allergy tests gave stark evidence of what she already suspected, that her beloved boy was having asthma attacks because of her beloved cat. Read More...

Published Fri, Mar 19 2010 11:21 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Pets, allergies

Missing a Son on the Census Form

What I did not expect was that the first thing the form asked me to do is deny my older son. "Do not count anyone living away either at college or in the Armed Forces" (or nursing homes and prisons) it said. Read More...

Published Fri, Mar 19 2010 5:31 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, census

Sexist Messages on Baby Clothes

Gymboree has already pulled its "Smart Like Daddy" and "Pretty Like Mommy" onesies. Was it sexism, or much ado about not very much? Read More...

Published Tue, Nov 22 2011 10:13 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, babies, Fashion, Sasha Brown-Worsham, Mary Elizabeth Williams, sexism

2011: Stories That Changed the Way We Parent Now

From the Tiger Mother to Jerry Sandusky: Stories that changed the way parents think in 2011. Read More...

Published Fri, Dec 30 2011 8:23 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Technology, vaccines, gender identity, tiger mom, Jerry Sandusky, year in parenting, HPV

Adulthood Can Wait?

Why have the 20s become a time when our children stall, flounder and remain children? Read More...

Published Wed, Aug 18 2010 6:07 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Robin Marantz Henig, adulthood

Girls Aren’t Meaner Than Boys. It Only Looks That Way.

There aren't many gender differences in meanness. What's different is how girls and boys respond. Read More...

Published Wed, Nov 18 2015 10:34 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, adolescence, Teenagers and Adolescence, Women and Girls, Highlights

Thanksgiving, With College Students: Fantasy, Reality, and Getting It Right

For college students, coming home is a choice. Here's how to make it one you're all glad they make. Read More...

Published Sun, Nov 22 2015 3:26 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Teenagers and Adolescence, Colleges and Universities, Thanksgiving Day, Highlights, Parenting After Senior Year

The Marrying Kind

What does decades of data tell us about the changing role of marriage? Read More...

Published Thu, Nov 18 2010 10:27 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, marriage trends, wives taller than husbands, prince william and kate middleton

Spanking Is (Still) Wrong

If everyone is agreed, then, why the continuing parade of research? Read More...

Published Wed, Apr 14 2010 10:13 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Spanking

The College Race Brings Families Together?

As high-school seniors bite their fingernails today, waiting for the last wave of college-admissions decisions (on April Fool's Day, of all days), there is one bit of good news out of this ever-more-competitive application process Read More...

Published Thu, Apr 01 2010 1:12 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized

Debating Bribes and Rewards

KJ Dell'Antonia and Bruce Feiler debate the question "Should you bribe your kids?" Read More...

Published Tue, Oct 29 2013 7:19 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Highlights

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