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Set Limits or Let it Ride?
My husband and I have an ongoing discussion about limit setting. He feels like I’m too loose with our kids and I feel like he’s too strict. What’s the balance?
Sincerely,
Dear Reader , How to discipline is a question that most parents are struggling with these days. How strict is “too strict?” Are children [...]
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Lindsey, Paris and Britney: It’s All Your Mother’s Fault! Huffington Post
Jamie Lee Curtis recently wrote in the Huffington Post that the problems with Paris, and, presumably, Britney and Lindsay, can be explained by bad mothering. According to the numerous posts about her article, most people found her analysis spot on. I could see why: Paris’s mother laughed at the judge when he handed down her [...]
Kids Can Ruin Marriage: Top 5 Things You Need to Know: Huffington Post
Here’s a potentially depressing fact: for many couples, marital satisfaction takes a huge plunge when they become parents and their marriages don’t reach pre-child levels of satisfaction until the kids are teens or go off to college. Yikes! Isn’t there something couples can do? Yes, and the studies show that when couples do these things, [...]
Gendor Vendors, SF Chronicle
Technology that will allow us to select the sex of our babies is just within reach.
But should it be?
Pink or blue?
Which color to paint the nursery used to be the big decision parents-to-be had to make regarding their baby’s gender. Now, technology not only allows parents-in-waiting to know their baby’s gender, procedures that will let [...]
Fighting and Biting
Ah summer morning… the robins and finches twittering in the elms, the smell of coffee brewing in the kitchen, warm breeze coming through the screen door and the sound of my twin boys trying to kill each other in the living room.
“You idiot!”
“Get off me! Urggh, get off me!!”
“Da-uh-ad!! He kicked me!!”
“Well, he spit on [...]
When I Was Your Age, I Was an Adult! Huffington Post
I saw this caption in a recent New Yorker cartoon and thought that it captured the way that so many of today’s parents feel about their grown children. Have children become lazier? I don’t think so. When I was growing up, you didn’t have to go to college to be able to get a decent [...]
Seven Common Mistakes of Parenting Adult Children
In the past 100 years we have gone from seeing children as robust and benefiting from the rigors of life to seeing them as fragile and in need of protection. In addition, while parents in the early 20th century wanted their children to conform, respect the parents’ authority, and to fear them, today’s parents want [...]
Stepmothering: What You Need to Know
Being a stepmother is hard, and often, thankless work. While some stepmothers are able to establish close and comfortable relationships, many struggle with the role. In addition, children are typically more tolerant and accepting of stepfathers than stepmothers. Here are some important reasons why stepmothering can be such a struggle:
Loyalty Factor: Children often have intense [...]
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My Husband Won’t Help around the house