Recent Posts Tagged With 'parenting'

• Line of risque T-shirts has family groups outraged

  Posted on Wednesday July 22nd, 2009 at 00:36 in family, Culture, parenting, socialization, cotton on, cotton on kids

  Somehow, there is a new level of risque attained when you slap sexual messages on a four month old. I’m still trying NOT to picture this sweet little cherub kicking about in a T-shirt with “I’m living proof my mum is easy” s...

• Is our culture too overprotective of children?

  Posted on Wednesday April 8th, 2009 at 01:31 in Culture, parenting, babysitting, child neglect, przybylinksi

  Grandparents in West El Paso, Texas left their five grandchildren home alone while they ran into town to “take care of some business.”  The eldest was thirteen, the youngest four.  They never expected to receive a call there at the IRS ...

• Is it a parent’s duty to do the best for their children?

  Posted on Wednesday April 1st, 2009 at 01:51 in parenting, blogging, public school

  I don’t really know what “good enough” parenting is.  Maybe it is a British thing, but apparently it is something of enough concern to the UK that the government funded some research which concluded that better parenting leads to b...

• Are women held back by “sucking sound” of their infants?

  Posted on Wednesday March 25th, 2009 at 02:49 in family, parenting, nursing, blogroll, mommy wars, breast-feeding

  I am far from a breast-feeding fascist, but I can’t help but take issue with Hanna Rosin’s recent article The Case Against Breast-Feeding (via the discussion at BlogHer).  My objections have little to do with whether or not you should br...

• Nebraska’s safe haven law

  Posted on Monday November 17th, 2008 at 00:02 in Culture, parenting, safe haven, safe haven laws, nebrask safe haven law

  There has been quite a bit of buzz recently about Nebraska’s safe haven laws, intended to give a safe place for distraught mothers to drop off their unwanted infants.  These laws are gaining in popularity as people are increasingly horrified a...

• Homeschooling causes eating disorders

  Posted on Monday November 10th, 2008 at 01:36 in family, parenting, Faith, homeschool, homeschooling

  So Much Straw recently addressed one of my deepest fears as a homeschooling parent, and one I have heard echoed in many conversations with other homeschoolers. What if it doesn’t work? We all want what is best for our children.  We’ve ma...

• Tommy Nelson looking for book reviewers

  Posted on Wednesday October 29th, 2008 at 21:55 in parenting

  Thomas Nelson Publishing is looking for bloggers who would be willling to receive free copies of certain books in exchange for a review (minimum 200 words) on your blog and on Amazon.  You can write a positive or negative review.  If interested, vi...

• What’s the matter with kids today?

  Posted on Sunday September 14th, 2008 at 23:29 in kids, parenting, homeschooling, public school

  What’s the matter with kids today?  Well, Chris Erskine of the LA Times shares some thoughts, anyway.  I think we are supposed to relate…hopefully you don’t, really, but I did struggle to not spew forth my mouthful of Assam over E...