Parenting

Sarah Vanderveen 10-31-2011

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With her teenage son reading The Great Gatsby for school, poet Sarah Vanderveen revisits Fitzgerald's masterpiece, this time as an audio experience.

Caroline Langston 10-12-2011

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It took us a solid hour to travel six miles down New York Avenue, then another thirty minutes to get through the 3rd Street tunnel. The children were thirsty. More than once I considered turning around and heading home, though by that point it would have taken just as long to get home as to get where we were going.

And all along the way I rehearsed to myself the arguments of the Free Range Kids / Last Child in the Woods crowd. My husband and I like to think we have a mellow style of child rearing, more focused on moral development and kindness than in developing the "Super People" described in James Atlas' essay in the October 2 New York Times.

I was becoming the stereotype I decried -- schlepping children to lessons at the great cost of time and calm. Couldn't they just run around outside the house?

Helen Lee 2-03-2011
By now, you've surely heard about the infamous Wall Street Journal article enti
Edith Rasell 5-04-2010
As someone who lives in Cleveland -- which in some years is identified as the poorest city in the U.S.
Carol Keehan 3-15-2010

As I watched our president present his plan to pass the health reform legislation, it was clear this is a historic opportunity to make great improvements in the lives of so many Americans. Is it perfect? No. Does it cover everyone? No. But is it a major first step? Yes.

Kathy Khang 3-08-2010

Hollywood isn't real life, but when real life (mine and the lives of the actors) and Hollywood converge it is great fodder for thinking and conversation. Peter and I can't stop talking about a recent date night movie, Up in the Air, starring Vera Farmiga and George Clooney.

Edward Gilbreath 11-04-2009
A Facebook friend sent me a link to a wonderful YouTube video.
Tracey Bianchi 8-25-2009

There's this place near our home called Kiddie Land. It's sort of this epic little corner nearish to the city that, for 80 some years, has boasted good times for kiddos. Think wooden roller coasters from the '30s, a wooden carousel, and rides that make you feel somehow like you are on a boardwalk in Atlantic City or someplace like that in the '20s.

Helping parents resist the siren song of marketers.
Franklin D. Raines 2-01-2008

Will your own humanness really ruin your children for life?

Ed Spivey Jr. 4-01-2006
Today's toddler, in his front-facing carrier, thinks he can fly.

...one moment at a time.

Ed Spivey Jr. 1-01-2005
I'm the one usually throwing things at the TV.
Stacia M. Brown 1-01-2002
Shrimp feasts, rifle training, and jail time: The peaks and perils of growing up with activist parents.
Sondra Lwheeler 5-01-1999
Genetic engineering and the character of parenthood.
Good parenting--the teaching of values--takes time.