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Keep talking to your teens -- even if they're not listening 24 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
by Connie Matthiessen, Associate Editor Mark Twain famously wrote: “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twen...
8 things I wish they’d told me about the first day of kindergarten 17 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
By Leslie Crawford, Senior Editor I don’t know why, but nobody tells you, the parent, anything about kindergarten. Or at least the things that matter. For each of my children, one now an entering...
Teen sex under your roof 17 Aug 2013 | 04:46 am
By Carol Lloyd, Executive Editor “Mom, they’re asleep in the same bed!” My 23-year-old brother, eight years my senior, had come home from college in the middle of the night to get some maternal succo...
The kindness of strangers: help a kid gear up for school 8 Aug 2013 | 09:44 pm
by Connie Matthiessen, Associate Editor Back to school may be the second biggest shopping season of the year, but my family usually doesn’t join the stampede. My kids aren’t big shoppers, and neither...
Your genius baby vs. my dumb darling 30 Jul 2013 | 04:26 am
By Leslie Crawford, Senior Editor At the core of so many parents is the yearning to be the DNA source behind the greatest child ever born. (Hey, even if I’m not all that, we think, my child is the be...
Kids or smokers: what side are you on? 26 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
By Connie Matthiessen, Associate Editor Here’s a no-brainer: would you rather give more kids the chance to succeed in school, or give smokers access to cheaper cigarettes? That’s what is at stake wi...
Teaching kids to look out for #1 24 Jul 2013 | 05:38 am
By Jessica Kelmon What do you think of people who take candy from children? Or who don’t stop (or even slow) for pedestrians? Or who tend to boss others around rather than communicate more cooperativ...
Data-mad parenting 20 Jul 2013 | 04:26 am
By Carol Lloyd, Executive Editor She tracked her daughter’s feces as a baby, not only timing but texture and color. During the toddler years, she added metrics like word acquisition. Now that the chi...
What are reading with your kids this summer? 13 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
By Connie Matthiessen, Associate Editor If you ask me, reading with kids is one of life’s purest pleasures. But now that my kids are older (14, 17, and 18), reading together is a rare event. It’s har...
The summer schooling of a slacker mom 10 Jul 2013 | 10:48 pm
By Leslie Crawford, Senior Editor Summer got off to such a promising start. The sun was dappling ... dappling! We lounged, poolside, at a 7-year-old’s birthday party; the first Sunday after school ....
