Suki Wessling: writer, teacher, radio host

Category: Parenting

  • How to raise boys who respect women

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    Men are being called out in public for acts they committed in private. I haven’t asked them, but I’m guessing that the moms of these men didn’t raise their sons to behave this way. How can we do better?

  • Loving and loss

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    I had a dream: My family was in Paris. We were on our way to see a friend, who’d rented an apartment there on Forest Ave. (As it goes in dreams, all the street names were borrowed from Palo Alto!) My family and I were going there, but somehow we got separated and I was…

  • Parenting to avoid regret

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    A case study: Parenting is a messy business, and we are all just doing the best we can with the tools we have available to us.

  • Parenting in the age of fear porn

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    How we live and parent is our choice. The rational way to get through this life of too many competing voices is to make the best decision based on the information we have on hand and move on. But this is hard to do when we are facing the onslaught of fear porn.

  • In praise of a job well done

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    I’ve always had a problem with the idea that there are “important” and “less important” jobs in human society. I, for one, consider the guy who comes and gets my garbage regularly very important. But whether or not some jobs are seen as more important by our society as others, I think everyone should join me…