Dads bring different skills and tendencies to parenting – and their “natural style” tends to differ from women’s. These two “typical approaches” complement each other...
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We gotta help our little kids fight the machines. I could have called this “How to keep living in a F’ed-up world from hurting your child.” Today, we...
“Information, Not Direction.” Easy to say, not always easy to do, as following it requires intimacy with the second of our “3 Rs”: Respect. Your child makes her own...
The short answer is “Often, nothing; other times, a lot.” You could say “parenting instincts are in our DNA” and it’s true – our instincts towards small children...
The first answers are safety; basic biological needs like food, shelter and health; and attachment to a consistent caring adult. If you have the resources, supplying...
by Po Bronson – reprinted Published Feb 11, 2007 in New York Magazine – used here without permission What do we make of a boy like Thomas? Thomas (his middle name) is a...
Book Report Easy To Love, Difficult To Discipline: , by Becky A. Bailey How many of us, listening to ourselves responding to a tantruming toddler, have felt inept...
Minimize all levels of judgement - both positive and negative - by simply communicating what you observe.
Published Feb 11, 2007 in New York Magazine – used here without permission What do we make of a boy like Thomas? Thomas (his middle name) is a fifth-grader at the...
Ann Alexander “Nancy” Beatty Swett, 81, who had been walking with Parkinson’s disease with her usual grace and courage, died on April 15th, 2016, surrounded by her...
