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  • KEEP BABY'S BRAIN GREEN

    Baby's brain is a complex environment that requires care. Baby is pre-wired to soak up what he/she needs to develop . Messing around with these ecology is at best pointless and at worst harmful, especially in the hands of merchandisers. The Disney refund story is incredibly positive news in the world of ...
    Posted to Chatterbox by mydigitalfamily on November 15, 2009

  • Parenting

    I have an MS from Purdue U in Child Development and Family Studies. The main thing that I learned is that there are as many ways to parent as their are parents X2. And the State is possibly the worst parent of all. Blood is thicker than law. So, let parents parent and let the chips fall where they may. The State should step in ONLY when there ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by mdmonahan on October 24, 2009

  • Re: Why does it matter what kind of a mother Betty is?

    The style of parenting depicted in the MM is accurate for the time. Children had not yet become idolized. Their phobias were not taken seriously and their foibles were slapped out of the figuratively or literally. It was the next generation that became kid obsessed. Having learned just enough psychology to be harmful, they felt they could ...
    Posted to TV Club by mmontano on September 23, 2009

  • Re: Betty's parenting

    Even if we accept the premise that Betty is a ''typical'' mother of the 1960's, we don't have to excuse her actions. We do know better. When your child comes to you, screaming and distraught over the death of her grandpa, you don't keep your back turned to her while ordering her angrily to go watch TV. On the other hand, kids at that time were ...
    Posted to TV Club by idfriendly on September 22, 2009

  • women in Jewish business, Wasps in civil rights, Parenting

    Peggy: Looking great, all of a sudden in that snug dress, finally wearing something that becomes her. Dare I mention Mary Wells(c. 1967) of the painted Braniff Airlines planes, who later formed Wells, Rich and Green ad agency? It's true she seems to have slept her way into the Braniff contract but that sort of thing unsually got you downgraded, ...
    Posted to TV Club by ruthhmiller on September 15, 2009

  • Re: It IS a parents duty to put his/her kids interests first!

    I generally agree with sullivan. Bazelon's tone seems vague to me: I can't tell if she is criticizing parents who attempt to influence classroom placement where the school forbids it or if she is criticizing any attempt to do so regardless of what the school allows. The comments about ''zero sum gain'' seem to suggest the latter: ''your kid ...
    Posted to Family by gambit293 on September 8, 2009

  • Bazelon's Strong Premise Is Unsubstantiated

    Apart from the premise, there is not a lot of good I can find in this article. I agree with Ms. Bazelon - surely helicopter parents meddling in the affairs of their child(ren)'s school(s) is a very bad idea. However, the rest of the article does not support the premise very well. For starters, ''combinations of kids they're building'' makes ...
    Posted to Family by Glou on September 5, 2009

  • The Playpen

    I myself had difficulties locating a ''playpen'' many years ago. I had four kids 4 and under (one set of twins) and needed a true playpen. I found that the playpen was much larger than a pack-n-play. We used the playpen when the twins were very small, opting to place the pen in a playroom for the older sibling to be out of reach when the twins ...
    Posted to Family by meadhome on August 17, 2009

  • Playpen during holidays...

    In the 1980's, we always took a playpen with us when we traveled to grandparent homes that were not baby-proof, and our babies slept safely in the playpen. However, the best use of the playpen came at Christimas time. In our otherwise baby-proof home, we put the Christmas tree in the playpen! Ornaments were safe from the baby. The baby was safe ...
    Posted to Family by Xenaxena on August 17, 2009

  • He's the Baby. Gotta Love Him...

    My son liked his playpen just fine ... until he didn't. It was my mom's last gift to me as a new mother before she died, so I guess there's a bit of emotional remnant to my recollections of nearly 20 years. My son wasn't left in there for any length of time because I really enjoyed playing and interacting with him. But other than his crib, it ...
    Posted to Family by Stickagum on August 16, 2009
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