Making kids play team sports in PE is neither healthy nor educational. By Jessica Olien | Originally Published at Slate. May 12, 2013 | Illustration Credit; Photograph by Presidio of Monterey | Source Flickr As a kid, I wanted desperately to be good at sports. This was [...]
Illustration; post typography You might have mused about how you helped and how you have hurt your children. Perhaps you have asked yourself if you have done too much or if you did too little. Can we save a child who has gone astray? Is it possible [...]
America’s children seem to be shortchanged on almost every issue we face as a society. Not only are we failing to protect our children from deranged people wielding semi-automatic guns. We’re not protecting them from poverty. The rate of child poverty keeps rising – even [...]
Photograph; Credit Brent Nicastro By Jennifer Holladay | Originally Published at Rethinking Schools. Volume 27 No.2 - Winter 2012-2013 A parent confronts bias in early elementary literature Last spring, my 2nd-grade daughter came home with an extra assignment—a worksheet she hadn’t completed in class for a [...]
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 [...]
By Amanda Gardner | Originally Published atCable News Network/Health.com. Thursday, June 14, 2012 (Health.com) -- Obese children and teenagers face a slew of potential health problems as they get older, including an increased risk of diabetes, heart attacks, and certain cancers. As if that weren't enough, obesity [...]
By Joyce McFadden | Originally Published at Huffington Post. June 13, 2012 5:47 PM EDT | Photographic Credit; francisco_osorio[Flickr] As mothers, we want to do everything humanly possible to make sure our daughters live happy, healthy lives. I spoke with 450 women about whatever was most important [...]
Even those of us who aren't religious tend to rely on some notion of a soul.' Illustration: John Holcroft for the Guardian. Click on picture for full frame Are they both essentially the same thing, asks Oliver Burkeman By Oliver Burkeman | Originally Published at [...]
