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Recently, my youngest child asked a question about love and God. He quickly realized from my reaction that he must have said something clever. As I reached for my laptop, he said, "Are you going to write what I said on Facebook? Do not write it there!" I was stunned. In fact, I was going to post his thoughts and solicit comments. But even a 5-year-old can assert intellectual property rights. And I respected his wishes. This is an emerging gray area in parenthood: How much do we share of our children's lives when chats around... Full story
Recently, my youngest child asked a question about love and God. He quickly realized from my reaction that he must have said something clever. As I reached for my laptop, he said, "Are you going to write what I said on Facebook? Do not write it there!" I was stunned. In fact, I was going to post his thoughts and solicit comments. But even a 5-year-old can assert intellectual property rights. And I respected his wishes. This is an emerging gray area in parenthood: How much do we share of our children's lives when chats around...
My ambitious clothing audit began with an impulse to purge. It was getting harder to pull garments in and out of a packed closet, in which tops pressed up against dress shirts, which nudged jackets into a dark corner. I decided to catalogue each item taking up precious space by color, age, style and how much I enjoyed wearing it. It forced me to take inventory of how much overlap and waste lurked inside. My neurotic exercise prompted our fashion editor, Debra Bass, to invite readers to share their own closet confessions....
My ambitious clothing audit began with an impulse to purge. It was getting harder to pull garments in and out of a packed closet, in which tops pressed up against dress shirts, which nudged jackets into a dark corner. I decided to catalogue each item taking up precious space by color, age, style and how much I enjoyed wearing it. It forced me to take inventory of how much overlap and waste lurked inside. My neurotic exercise prompted our fashion editor, Debra Bass, to invite readers to share their own closet confessions....
"How can we measure the sonata unwritten, the curative drug undiscovered, the absence of political insight? They are the difference between what we are, and where we could be as a society." — James Gallagher, former director of the FPG Child Development Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill. There is a well-tolerated discrimination in our education system. If a child has a disability, there are laws to protect and guarantee that he or she receives an appropriate education. But if a child has exceptional cognitive ability or...
"How can we measure the sonata unwritten, the curative drug undiscovered, the absence of political insight? They are the difference between what we are, and where we could be as a society." — James Gallagher, former director of the FPG Child Development Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill. There is a well-tolerated discrimination in our education system. If a child has a disability, there are laws to protect and guarantee that he or she receives an appropriate education. But if a child has exceptional cognitive ability or... Full story
Ginger Allington was getting up around the clock to nurse her baby back to sleep. Neither she nor her husband had slept much for months, and Allington says she remembers thinking: "We need to get him to sleep longer or I'm going to die." Her husband, Adam, described that period of time as the "widow maker." For those who doubt the desperation that parents feel when they suffer from acute or chronic sleep loss, consider that sleep deprivation is allegedly among the "enhanced interrogation techniques" used on detainees at Abu...
Ginger Allington was getting up around the clock to nurse her baby back to sleep. Neither she nor her husband had slept much for months, and Allington says she remembers thinking: "We need to get him to sleep longer or I'm going to die." Her husband, Adam, described that period of time as the "widow maker." For those who doubt the desperation that parents feel when they suffer from acute or chronic sleep loss, consider that sleep deprivation is allegedly among the "enhanced interrogation techniques" used on detainees at Abu...
Amy Goyer left her home in Washington two years ago to care for her aging parents in Phoenix. Her mother had suffered a stroke two decades earlier, and her father was beginning to show signs of dementia. Goyer works at AARP as a family expert and has walked hundreds of caregivers through this same process. But even for her, the shifting familial roles have brought challenges and unexpected emotions. Her parents' house had always been her safe place, like childhood homes are for so many adults who move away for education and... Full story
Amy Goyer left her home in Washington two years ago to care for her aging parents in Phoenix. Her mother had suffered a stroke two decades earlier, and her father was beginning to show signs of dementia. Goyer works at AARP as a family expert and has walked hundreds of caregivers through this same process. But even for her, the shifting familial roles have brought challenges and unexpected emotions. Her parents' house had always been her safe place, like childhood homes are for so many adults who move away for education and...
I knew the minute I saw a red-faced grown man hollering at his 5-year-old son during a soccer practice. I didn't want my kindergartner playing with this crowd. His little friend with the very loud father seemed so eager to please that I couldn't decide if the scene left me depressed or angry. I wanted to tell the hyper dad to relax, but no one else seemed to think his behavior was unusual. In fact, he wasn't the only parent so heavily invested in this no-stakes soccer practice. Anyone who has recently attended a youth sports... Full story
I knew the minute I saw a red-faced grown man hollering at his 5-year-old son during a soccer practice. I didn't want my kindergartner playing with this crowd. His little friend with the very loud father seemed so eager to please that I couldn't decide if the scene left me depressed or angry. I wanted to tell the hyper dad to relax, but no one else seemed to think his behavior was unusual. In fact, he wasn't the only parent so heavily invested in this no-stakes soccer practice. Anyone who has recently attended a youth sports...
