Tag: parenting
The heartbreaking truth is that mothers without paid maternity leave try, try, try -- too often without help and without hope, too. They are never able to get ahead, and their children start out behind. ...
Most children want to love everybody in their family, and they rely on us adults to show them how. We are their role models, always. What kind of role model shall we be?
Low-income parents, especially single mothers, have higher rates of depression and depressive symptoms than mothers with higher incomes.
There are two styles of parents micromanaging their children's affairs. Both emerge from the belief that one can protect children from pain and struggle. It's a flawed belief ending in sadness.
Helping children develop healthy eating habits now is the key, the experts say, because the dire consequences are coming fast.
Keeping track of kids at an amusement park or other crowded venue is a roller coaster ride in itself.
By Geoffrey Mohan, Los Angeles Times (TNS) Research has shown that a person’s position in the economic pecking order can have a lasting effect on cognitive development. But can it also affect the size and ...
Teen suicide is still considered a private matter. Maybe we ought to rethink that.
In the world of fourth-grade travel basketball, the growing up comes fast.
My mother was a child abuser. I was, too. In fact, growing up, pretty much every parent I knew abused their kids. Or so many of Adrian Peterson’s critics would have you believe. Peterson, a ...
This is the month of departure for many parents, the time of year when they brace themselves for new versions of their children getting on with life. In recent days, my encounters — from random ...
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