By Joyce McFadden | Originally Published at Huffington Post. July 9, 2012 Updated September 8, 2012 5:12 AM EDT | Photographic Credit; Collin Key [ Flickr "The day I received my period, my mother gave me a pad and told me never to let boys play with [...]
"Time outs don’t work for parents who are unwilling to put themselves in an adult time out — which is what’s really needed" By Jayson Gaddis | Good Men Project. July 3, 2012 | Photographic Credit Matthew Brown/E+/Getty Images. In my opinion, we need a big [...]
Sir Ken Robinson speaks during the Dalai Lama Center's Educating the Heart Series. He discusses the importance of an education that educates not just the mind, but also the heart. “In any list of what it means to be human, empathy, intuition, imagination and compassion would surely [...]
New research shows that teaching kids more and more, at ever-younger ages, may backfire. By Alison Gopnik | Originally published at Slate. March 16, 2011 Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading [...]
[This is an expanded version of the published article, which appeared in the Washington Post’s Sunday “Outlook” section.] Pour lire cet article en français, cliquer ici. If the subject is kids and how they’re raised, it seems our culture has exactly one story to tell. [...]
You could say that perfectionism is a crime against humanity. Adaptability is the characteristic that enables the species to survive—and if there's one thing perfectionism does, it rigidifies behavior. It constricts people just when the fast-moving world requires more flexibility and comfort with ambiguity than ever. [...]
Measures to put drug abusers in rehab instead of jail could rescue their kids from the cycle of addiction, foster care and crime. By Nell Bernstein | Originally Published at Salon. October 30, 2002 The last time Tracy Carter, a longtime drug user, was sent [...]
