Category: Parenting

Our Marriage Ended. Our Family Did Not.

Children do not divorce their parents. This is a typical example of how most people who co-parent have to deal with real life after divorce. An excert from this article: http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/parenting/2014/11/23/our-marriage-ended-our-family-did-not/?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=1&referrer Divorcing felt like a death that deserved mourning. Yet…

The Accused

Jason — until recently a student at an Ivy League school under Title IX investigation that has faced intense public criticism for the way it handles sexual assault cases — met Vanessa for the first time late at night at…

The Harry Potter Generation

An excerpt from this article: http://thefederalist.com/2014/09/15/the-harry-potter-generation/ Denying that kids do best when both biological parents raise them is not just naïve, it’s cruel and abusive. It doesn’t matter who raises children as long as they have money and basic parenting skills.…

The Father Project

In my research and experience dealing with divorcing couples, whenever a woman has major issues with men, there are usually issues with the woman’s father and her relationship with him. It’s important that people make amends and deal with those…

Thousands of Toddlers Are Medicated for A.D.H.D., Report Finds, Raising Worries

An excerpt from this New York Times article: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/05/17/us/among-experts-scrutiny-of-attention-disorder-diagnoses-in-2-and-3-year-olds.html?_r=2&referrer= ATLANTA — More than 10,000 American toddlers 2 or 3 years old are being medicated for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder outside established pediatric guidelines, according to data presented on Friday by…

The marriage crisis

If people only knew how horrible divorce REALLy is, there wouldn’t be so many of them: An excerpt from this article: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2014/02/01/2928280/the-marriage-crisis.html Marriage in America is disintegrating. According to the Census in 2013, only 48 percent of Americans were married —…

The Male Birth Control Pill

I was researching information about the male birth control pill and ran across this great post. They touch upon several issues. I think more needs to be said about this. What would really happen if there was male birth control…

Female Predators

Interesting article: Don’t excuse female predators of children BY LAUREN BOOK LA****@LA*********.ORG http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/08/02/3539486/dont-excuse-female-predators-of.html Any parent can relate to the fear of a sexual predator lurking in the shadows near a playground, looking for the next victim. And while bad-intentioned strangers…

The truth hurts

Why Liberals Are Wrong on Teen Pregnancy by Keli Goff- posted on The Root March 12, 2013 There’s a scene in the wildly popular TV show Downton Abbey in which a single mother working as a prostitute to support her…

Suzy Lee Weiss

I feel that someone should have warned her before she hit SEND on her computer keyboard. To put yourself out there like this brings much more negative energy than positive to her name and image. Does she want to be…

Touch Screen kids

Not that long ago, there was only the television, which theoretically could be kept in the parents’ bedroom or locked behind a cabinet. Now there are smartphones and iPads, which wash up in the domestic clutter alongside keys and gum…