by Stacey
Believe it or not I still read parenting books. I know that some people take this to an extreme, reading the advice of far too many so-called experts, but I have found that a few good ones can actually be very helpful. Parenting is hard. I don’t mind asking for input now and then.
The […]

by Stacey
Some schools around the country are teaching students a controversial form of meditation to help battle stress. According to this article in Newsweek, transcendental meditation may help kids in inner city schools better handle stressful situations as well as improve their academic performance.
TM is the trademarked name of a meditation technique created by Maharishi […]

by Stacey
A fascinating new study in the journal Cognition shows that three and four-year old children attune to those who provide them with reliable information. According to this short piece in the NY Times Science section, preschoolers spontaneously keep track of the trustworthiness of those around them.
“Humans make mistakes,” Susan A. J. Birch of the […]

by Stacey
A researcher from the University of California Berkeley and mother of two, says that moms do their kids a favor when they make time for themselves. Hurray! According to this blog post by Christine Carter executive director of the Greater Good Science Center, happy mothers may make happy children.
Carter says she regularly takes time […]

by Stacey
Okay, this is bad. According to this article in the London Sunday Times, more and more people in their thirties are suffering from early mid-life crises. Thanks to Salon’s Broadsheet for the tip.
If you’re in your mid-thirties, hassled by the dramas of juggling work and family, doubting decisions you’ve made professionally and personally, panicked […]

by Stacey
No one’s kid is perfect. Most of us struggle at some point in the day with our kids’ behavior, at times skillfully getting them to do what we want and other times using threats and bludgeons (okay not really). But some parents struggle more than others. This article in the Washington Post looks at […]

Cross-posted at MotherTalkers
by Stacey
Here’s some crazy crap for you: According to a new documentary film making its way through politically conservative circles, there’s an ominous decline in childbirth rates around the world such that if we all don’t start procreating fast, armageddon is surely afoot. The movie is called “Demographic Winter: Decline of the Human […]

by Stacey
Sorry Sascha. Sometimes it can seem like living with a toddler is like living with a wild animal. Unwanted food gets thrown on the floor, magazines you haven’t read yet get ripped to shreds, puzzle pieces get hurled across the room. But according to this article in the NY Times, one of the nation’s […]

by Stacey
The Open Post - Last Friday I took Sascha to the Child Development Lab at the University of Washington in Seattle. I volunteered to bring both kids on separate days for a class on human development.
When we walked in, the students, who are in a grad school program in Occupational Therapy, were sitting at […]

by Stacey
Used to be the class bully was the biggest or meanest kid in the class or maybe the coolest. But with new technologies in the hands of 80 percent of today’s middle and high school students, nowadays it could be just about anyone. According to a December supplement to the Journal of Adolescent Health, […]