Parenting

Disney closes popular parenting sites

Times Online (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago

Disney has abruptly shut down two popular parenting websites less than 18 months after acquiring them.

Boy forced to live with father 'because mother's parenting deficient'

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday

A judge who ordered a boy to go and live with his father against his wishes did so because the mother's parenting was "deficient" and she had allowed her son "too much power" over the custody battle court documents show.

Power of Faith Ministries, NCDA hold parenting workshop

Jamaia Star (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

The Power of Faith Ministries and the National Council for Drug Abuse (NCDA) have joined forces...

The NIMF is No More [Parenting]

Kotaku (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

The National Institute on the Media and the Family - whose annual report cards were more fair and reasonable than such an Orwellian name might imply - will close at the end of 2009 after 14 years of...

Can These Parents Be Saved: The Growing Backlash Against Over-Parenting

Time (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Overparenting got way out of control in the past generation. But now a band of rebels is trying to restore some balance and sanity to family life and help bring all those anxious helicopter parents down for a soft landing

‘Time’ examines the case of overparenting

Shrink Rap (Free subscription) | yesterday

A must read in the latest Time Magazine by Nancy Gibbs Can these parents be saved? Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Source: Time. msnbc [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Parenting In the Real World: What Do You Think?

Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

I posted the following status on Facebook: Free to good home: One 18 year old male. Hard worker, pleasant and civil to everyone but his parents. We pay for shipping. The parents who responded were encouraging. One of my child’s friends politely took offence at my status thinking I was trying to publicly shame my child. What do you think?

When was the last time you had an electron?

They're Joking. Aren't they? (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

Lesbians! Professors! 30 million pounds! Over at Civitas they have a post that perfectly combines an eye-catchingly prurient title with the slow, logical, brutal peeling of what appears to be an evidence-free assertion of cultural relativism presented as scientific gospel by a Third Sector scientisticalist. Do Lesbians Make Better Parents than Mums and Dads? Professor Stephen Scott is Professor of...

St. Paul dad must take parenting classes after outburst over shirt

Star Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday

Dad is enraged when son wears blue, a rival gang color .

Parenting School Years (1-year)

Save on magazine subscriptions! (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

As any mother knows, there are so many worries that can go along with those first few months and years. And, there's a plethora of magazines aimed at that segment. Now there's one targeting those of us who know that just because a child can speak up, feed/bathe/dress themselves, and growth percentiles are no longer the critical measure - there ARE still worries and struggles! Balancing freedom/discipline,...

Great Moments in Parenting

Media News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

"d'Armond Speers spoke only Klingon to his child for the first three years of its life. Klingon? Not Spanish, French, Mandarin? Not some gutteral genuflecting concoction from the deepest recesses of Borneo? Klingon? You heard it right. (And if you don't know about the Klingon Empire, look it up.) 'I was interested in the question of whether my son, going through his first language acquisition...

• Linguist Speaks Klingon to His Child - MNSpeak | Secrets of the City
• Dad Only Speaks Klingon To Son For 3 Years - Geekologie

Fathers Action Network volunteers distribute parenting-related kits

Chanel News Asia (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

SINGAPORE: More than a hundred volunteers of the Fathers Action Network, set out on Thursday to get fathers to play a greater role in their children's lives.

They're Not Normally Like This......Honestly

Autisable (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

I'd like to think my children are well behaved. I am studying psychology.....so. One would assume i knew something about behavior. But often, it would seem, God enjoys making me eat my words. Like the time we were visiting my inlaws....... CJ was 3 years old. I was quite proud of how well she played by herself. I felt we had done a wonderful job in teaching her to make her own fun and find her own...

Review; Babyprints Memory Box from Blooming Marvellous

Being a Mummy (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

One of the things I have been meaning to do for baby Fifi (and me) is to create a memory box filled with things relating to her birth and first year of life. I really enjoy looking at all the things that my mum kept from when I was little. The hospital wrist band, birthday cards and so on and I would like to be able to share similar moments with my little girl. Enter Blooming Marvellous , the independent...

Odds and ends, redux

Once in a Blue Muse: A poet's journal (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

I'm spending a few days visiting with my parents in Florida. For a change, it's actually warm and sunny. It usually decides to rain when I get here. Because of that, I neglected to pack a bathing suit. Perhaps that's why I have blue skies and 80 degree weather. I may be a grown, married woman with children of her own, but when I'm with my folks, part of me still feels like a gawky adolescent. I'm not...

Cheryl Hines Cares about Birth Defects

bsalmons | 22/07/2009

Cheryl Hines became a mom in 2004. When she’s not working, Cheryl takes care of her lovely daughter, Catherine Rose. Even though the actress hired a nanny, she is very involved in raising her child. Did parenting change her lifestyle? Of course it did, because kids have different programs than the adults: They nap at certain hours, eat at certain hours, and most of the time sleep only if you do that