Toilet Trained For Yale: Adventures in 21st Century Parenting is a book that dissects some of the parenting practices of today that have the potential to make us — and our kids — just a little bit crazy. From overscheduling to overschooling, Ralph Schoenstein goes into the classes and talks to parents and teachers as [...]
Archive for September, 2008
26 Sep
The noise, the fun
Parent Bloggers and Generation Next asked us this week to talk about how life has changed since we had kids. Is it more wild around your house? More noisy? More just-a-bit-crazy round the edges?
Mine is. Where once we had quiet dinners and cozy evenings reading together, now we have family dinners [...]
25 Sep
I don’t understand
While on the one hand, I support and applaud PBS as they run ads encouraging kids to get off the computer and go play, I wonder about the contradiction in messages when at the end of every show the host encourages kids to get online, saying, “For more fun with your favorite friends from (insert [...]
24 Sep
Sid the Science Kid
Sid the Science Kid is a new PBS show (and web site) that is welcome in my house anytime. Sid is a typical 5 year old kid, happy and curious, who wants to know “everything about everything.” He investigates his world with the help of his mom, dad, grandma, preschool teacher Susie, and [...]
