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Digital Literacy Includes Learning to Unplug

The "time-wasting gap": The new digital divide is between children whose parents limit their use of computers and devices and those whose parents can't, don't or won't. Read More...

Published Wed, May 30 2012 8:11 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, texting, Technology, Research, Facebook, screen time, low income families, digital divide, smart phones

Genetic Testing of Embryos Raises Ethical Questions

Genetic testing raises unsettling ethical questions that trouble advocates for the disabled and have left some doctors struggling with what they should tell their patients. Read More...

Published Tue, Feb 04 2014 6:11 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Highlights

Fixing an Unbroken Marriage

How good is your marriage? We have talked before on Motherlode about how parenting has become a "profession"; about how we work diligently at being good mothers and fathers, seeing those as integral parts of our identity. We know what it means...

Published Wed, Dec 02 2009 8:11 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized

When Kids Relocate

The subject of this week's 1 in 8 Million profile is 14-year-old Joshua Caouette, who moved to New York two years ago to live with his father in Queens, leaving his mother behind in Texas. Read More...

Published Fri, Dec 04 2009 1:25 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, single parents

Snorting the Good Grade Drug

Students pressured to succeed in high school turn to Adderall for tunnel focus. Read More...

Published Sun, Jun 10 2012 7:31 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized

How Should We Talk to Boys About Sexual Abuse?

What do we need to be saying to our sons about sexual abuse? Is it different from what we need to tell our daughters? Read More...

Published Tue, Jun 12 2012 12:21 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, sons, Jerry Sandusky, child sexual abuse, Horace Mann

Reformed Beet-Hater Frank Bruni: Didn’t Like it as a Kid? Try It Now.

Are there really foods that we don’t like, or just foods that we haven’t liked yet? Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 26 2014 7:35 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Highlights

A Lesson on the Common Core

The state standards have been in the works since 2009 and are now in place at public schools all over the country. But many parents remain confused about what that means. Read More...

Published Thu, Feb 27 2014 7:17 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: education, parenting, Education (K-12), Teachers and School Employees, Tests and Examinations, Highlights, Parent-Teacher Conference, No Child Left Behind Act

When Is a Child Old Enough to Stay Home Alone?

When did you, or will you, start leaving your children during the day, and for how long? Read More...

Published Fri, Jun 22 2012 1:08 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, parental quandary, working parents, summer vacation, home alone

Must We Worry About the Boys of 'Brave?'

In "Brave," Pixar gives us the first Disney princess who doesn't need or want a prince - and it doesn't matter at all that the princes in question are all dolts. Read More...

Published Mon, Jun 25 2012 11:27 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Disney, Brave, princess

Finding Childhood Independence in the Sabbath

One day a week without driving means no soccer, gymnastics, play rehearsals, piano lessons or meetings to distract us from actually talking to each other. Read More...

Published Wed, Jun 27 2012 11:23 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, neighbors, walking to school, car culture, sabbath, Shabbat

Talking About Race (Etc.)

The most important conversations can be the toughest Read More...

Published Thu, Mar 10 2011 10:06 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, Sex, Race

Feeding Teenagers: The Days of Control Are Gone

I went from getting toddlers to sit still for a 15-minute dinner to texting teenagers to make sure they joined us at the table, and from encouraging them to try new foods to taming their newfound food freedom. Read More...

Published Wed, Apr 02 2014 7:10 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: parenting, Food, Teenagers and Adolescence, Diet and Nutrition, Highlights

Turning In Your Child for Bullying

A father marches his own teens to the police station after they attack another child. Read More...

Published Tue, Mar 22 2011 1:10 PM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized

Breastfeeding, and Working, at Rio+20

At the U.N. conference on sustainable development, I wasn't lobbying. I was leaking. Drenched in my own *** milk, I spent Rio+20 looking for a place to pump. Read More...

Published Fri, Jul 06 2012 10:57 AM by Motherlode

Filed under: Uncategorized, nursing, breast pump, Breastfeeding, women's equality, sustainability, environmental issues, developing countries, pump, Rio+20

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Digital Literacy Includes Learning to Unplug

Genetic Testing of Embryos Raises Ethical Questions

Fixing an Unbroken Marriage

When Kids Relocate

Snorting the Good Grade Drug

How Should We Talk to Boys About Sexual Abuse?

Reformed Beet-Hater Frank Bruni: Didn’t Like it as a Kid? Try It Now.

A Lesson on the Common Core

When Is a Child Old Enough to Stay Home Alone?

Must We Worry About the Boys of 'Brave?'

Finding Childhood Independence in the Sabbath

Talking About Race (Etc.)

Feeding Teenagers: The Days of Control Are Gone

Turning In Your Child for Bullying

Breastfeeding, and Working, at Rio+20