Tag: parenting
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Take your children to hear live music!
Get your children in the habit of listening to live music….and live longer and happier lives!
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On the other side of the free range
Everyone now knows that helicopter parenting is bad, but our culture continues to load guilt, and consequences, on moms who give their children some freedom.
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Parenting in the age of fear porn
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.
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Book review: Raising Human Beings
Greene’s approach is to teach parents to work with their little human beings starting not from an assumption of misbehavior, but from a place of empathy and compassion. Our little human beings are works in progress. They need our guidance to learn how to work within this complicated, confusing world. As parents, it’s our job…
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Are we doing better? A mom, a daughter, and a small press.
I went to a reading the other night at Bookshop Santa Cruz. It was the most fabulously successful reading I’ve seen there, literally standing room only. But it wasn’t Jonathan Franzen or Suzanne Collins that pulled them in. It was a mom, a daughter, and a little independent press.