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  • Idleness as a way of parenting.

    I couldn't agree more. I run an award-winning web site for kids, Inkless Tales, at www.inklesstales.com - endorsed by the ALA, the Encyclopedia Britannica, and RIF - heavy hitters - and the site is all designed for learning - but the site is all rigorously tested first. By kids. For fun. My own kids? We have ''do-nothing'' days. Lots ...
    Posted to Family by inklesstales on April 21, 2009

  • Moms, Don't Devalue Boys

    Yeah. There's this country song I heard while driving through the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida recently: Im Still a Guy by Brad Paisley. http://youtube.com/watch?v=zFxYXBW6QNo Now Im not endorsing everything this singer mentions, but he brings up the same sentiment that so many have mentioned in response to this article: a woman's desire ...
    Posted to Family by Usama2 on July 27, 2008

  • Thank you for writing this!

    ... this story is heartbreaking and infuriating. Of course the elderly are full human beings, have an evolved sexuality, and should have full access to their sexual rights. If our legal and familial institutions are not set up to handle these realities, they need to change. Many cultures have either formal or 'look the other way' valves to ...
    Posted to Family by commentator245 on June 14, 2008

  • Together 24 hours a day

    The couple in the article didn't spend their day much differently than my husband and I have done for the last 22 years. We own a business together, sit five feet apart from each other for 8 - 12 hours a day, go to lunch together, we've raised our children together, and even have date nights! However, we do have time apart. Now that our ...
    Posted to Family by sshickman on June 6, 2008