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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

  • Sibling keeper -- Emotional "incest"?

    There's a kind of inappropriate emotional closeness, it can be subtle sexualization, substitution of a child for a partner, or emotional intimacy inappropriate to a child.. Anyway, it seems that the woman writing about when she was ten and her mother confided her husband's affair to her and then expected her to simply ''forget'' it or ''get over ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by bobethomas on July 17, 2008

  • Life and Death

    The answer Prudence gave to Life and Death about the care of monor children following both parents deaths was incomplete. Such things should definitly be planned for through wills by all parents, remote as the possibility is that such an event may happen. The reasons that couples with new babies select ''Godparents'' is traditionally for exactly ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by Rojasp on April 13, 2008

  • More Women Driving Men?

    I've noticed this recently for some reason. Married for 16 years, when I go some place with my wife, I drive. Not out of some machismo or male domination, rather I consider it part of my responsibility as does my wife. Yet I have noticed in my suburbia of Florida- perhaps a microcosm of all Suburbia America given that Target, Walmart, 7-11, ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by Usama2 on December 17, 2007

  • Re: a couple of comments

    Since kids cost over $380,000 to raise ( see http://www.kidsareexpensive.com ), on average, you would think that they would show some appreciation by dressing appropriately.
    Posted to The Chat Room by gtull1 on December 4, 2007

  • Poverty does suck!

    Who likes being broke? Not me, and I guess not you. I agree though, we are wired to accept it. As long as mine are taken care of, who cares? Right??? With the average cost of raising a kid at over $300,000 ( see http://www.kidsareexpensive.com ), who can afford to be poor?
    Posted to The Undercover Economist by gtull1 on December 4, 2007

  • Re: Psycho-Dad

    Here's a real question...does the writer remember all of these horrors brought upon the family from his own personal memory, or is he depending upon others to tell him what happened? Did his mom convince all of the children of these horrors, or did they really happen? Changed names, moved to another coast? Why was that necessary after the birth ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by SJ Husak on November 27, 2007

  • Birth order effects disappearing?

    One of the problems with studying birth order effects - and the reason why our results may not match some older beliefs/studies - is that children are not raised together anymore. With so many kids in daycare, young children spend most of their waking hours in the care of others surrounded by children other than their siblings. Instead of ...
    Posted to Family by playingtrix on June 27, 2007