Child Care / Education / Parenting / Society
The Power of No in Parenting and Education
by I first have to say that I know a lot of great teenagers. I’m immensely proud of my sons and almost as much so of …
Category: Child Care
How Rich I Am
Facts as the web sees them are infinitely malleable, so I’m taking Global Rich List’s result with a grain of salt: Another thing to consider …
Child Care / Education / Youth
Grandstanding Buffoon Misses Point in Teacher Firing
Quanell X, grandstander supreme and champion of criminals, among other well-deserved titles, completely missed the point in the recent flap in Houston after a teacher …
Child Care / Health / Medicine
ADHD Medicine’s Value Over Time
In 1999, a group of researchers led by William Pelham released the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD (MTA), a paper that failed to …
Abortion / Child Care / Law
Federal Judge OKs "Morning After" Pill for Juveniles – Parental Consent Unnecessary
U.S. District Judge Edward Korman says that the Food and Drug Administration’s refusal to approve Plan B for over-the-counter use by juvenile girls was politically …
More Congressional Censorship, Inadvertent This Time?
I recently wrote about public libraries planning to ban older books because of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act passed by Congress last year. The …
Child Care / Media / Parenting
Study: TV Sex Leads to Teen Pregnancies
The Washington Post reports that a new study has determined the obvious: teenagers who watch sexually explicit programs on television are more likely to become …
Child Care / Crime / Society
Second-Guessing Witnesses
The SF Chronicle says: The town of Turlock and much of the rest of the nation was shocked when a 27-year-old man beat and stomped …
Effects of Feminism
Rebecca Walker, daughter of feminism and author Alice Walker, who publicly called her own child a calamity in her life, has some interesting things to …
1st Grade Harassment
In pointing out another case of legalistic lunacy, Susan Duclos writes: The "zero tolerance" policy at some school and in some states, reaches levels of …