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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
children walking
I share Rachael and Emily's feelings on this. Back in September, there was a story on my local news channel about parents in a nearby suburb in an uproar because, in an attempt to cut costs, their school district had cut down on the number of bus stops. Apparently, the costs savings from using less fuel by making fewer stops was significant. ...
Posted to XX Factor by transit-oriented diva on March 18, 2009
messy early reader
Well my son was reading fluently in two languages by the time he started kindergarten, and my house is a hopeless mess. So that theory doesn't hold much weight with me. What makes people avid readers is still something of a mystery. I don't believe it has anything to do with habits, condition, or executive functions. If I were a brain ...
Posted to Family by julwat on February 27, 2009
Baby diaper options- Biodegradable Composting Diaper Service
In response to the cloth diaper quandary, probably the best option out there is a biodegradable diaper composting service called Earth Baby. They work much like a cloth diaper service, but use biodegradable diapers and wipes. Now here is the best part... they collect the dirty diapers and compost them in a industrial facility completing the link ...
Posted to The Green Lantern by jplacount on January 23, 2009
One more comes to mind...
Finding Nemo terrified our two-year old, and terrified the two of us even more as we realized what was about to happen the first time we slid in the disk. Add to your list The Incredibles, which is a shoot-em-up, incredibly violent movie. At least, I think it is--after the first few minutes of gunplay, we turned it off and haven't touched it ...
Posted to Family by praeburn on January 14, 2009
Take Heart
Though my two sons and a daughter are now grown, they lost enough 'stuff' over the decades to fill a small department store. Ironically, you're on the right track about Laura Ingalls. When my husband took a mid-life career switch, eventually joining the clergy ranks, our household income dived by 40%. It was, in the current parlance, a real ...
Posted to Family by jsbridgeford on October 1, 2008
Spare the Rod
This article is ridiculous. I was spanked as a child and also spanked my children of whom are all grown now. I have never been violent with anyone or anything and my three kids are the same. None of them would hurt a fly and have all grown into very well rounded strong successful and loving adults with no mental problems. As a matter of fact, ...
Posted to Family by CINDY3575 on September 26, 2008
I'm not buyin' what you're sellin'...
Some may believe that it has been ''scientifically proven'' that spanking doesn't work, but not this little girl. I am exhibit A... When I was young, I got spanked a couple times and smacked in the mouth one time when I talked back to my mother. Let me tell you what... that was enough for me. I was a good child all the way through my teenage years ...
Posted to Family by spreeanne on September 26, 2008
But what do we do instead?
This is the problem .. if you were raised by parents who spanked you, in the heat of the moment (and believe me, raising kids is ALL ABOUT living in the heat of the moment) what do you do INSTEAD? We learn our parenting strategies from our parents very early .. like before-we-can-even-speak early, and we are required to deal with our own ...
Posted to Family by ariel4thou on September 24, 2008
Dahlia Lithwick Uses Recipes to Write a Legal Column About..
... ABORTION. Lithwick's very idea that women do not have reproductive choice, if they cannot extinquish the life growing in their own wombs, is in and of itself faulty. I mean, my God, did the female have sex with the guy, or did she not? As to being ''for change'' in everything but pro-Abort American policies at home and abroad, not everyone ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard2 on August 21, 2008

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