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On Connecticut 15 Dec 2012 | 03:06 am

There are some events so terrible, they strike at our hearts and chill our souls. So it is with the event in Connecticut today. We cried, all of us, every parent I know as if these were our children a...

Mayim Bialik's Beyond the Sling 14 Sep 2012 | 06:51 pm

Here’s my most recent review (in concert with my favorite neuroscientist, Stuart Derbyshire) of a parenting book. Thank you to the folks who suggested I should actually put the whole review here on th...

The Strange Case of the "Bullied" Bus Monitor 30 Jun 2012 | 02:42 am

The Strange Case of the "Bullied" Bus Monitor: The reaction to the behavior of kids who ridiculed their bus monitor is confused and unhelpful. 

On Attachment Parenting 30 Jun 2012 | 02:39 am

On Attachment Parenting: Another article I’m pleased with because I was able to start looking at the roots of Attachment Parenting. It’s so much a philosophy of its time. nb. This precedes the Etan P...

Etan Patz - The Case That Changed Everything 30 Jun 2012 | 02:35 am

Etan Patz - The Case That Changed Everything: Playing catch up with articles. This was very apt because I have been spending a lot of time looking at the 1970’s and 1980’s. I believe our current situ...

The ultimate irony: Kate Pickert implies that Dr. William Sears... 12 May 2012 | 06:07 am

The ultimate irony: Kate Pickert implies that Dr. William Sears develops attachment parenting as a consequence of the way he was parented. 

Parents are for more reasonable than we give them credit for.... 28 Apr 2012 | 01:20 am

Parents are for more reasonable than we give them credit for. But it seems that any thing can become a flash point in the culture war over kids and what we ‘owe’ them. It all started at a Yankees gam...

Nightmare Turned Tragedy 7 Apr 2012 | 03:19 am

There is nothing, and I mean nothing worse than watching your child suffer with a serious illness — except being falsely accused of having abused them. The story of the murder-suicide of Tiffany and D...

It's Open Season on Parents 6 Apr 2012 | 05:10 am

Parents should not be above criticism, but the hysterical reaction to two stories, one about the cancellation of a Colorado Springs Easter Egg Hunt and bogus story about Park Slope Parents wanting to ...

Vive La France! 31 Mar 2012 | 04:29 am

My review of Bringing Up Bébé by Pamela Druckerman is the feature in this month’s Spiked Review of Books. Though this book is meant to be fairly light and journalistic - or at least it’s been sold tha...

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