For the past year, I’ve been dating a man with four young children. His kids live with their mother on the opposite coast, so he only sees them for two weeks during the summer. He wants us to get married, and I do love him, but I absolutely don’t want children. I just don’t connect [...]
My 6-year-old son began reading when he was about 4, and my concern is: How do I know whether I’m expecting too much of him or not pushing enough?
My teenager wants to get a job. She says that all of her friends work and have their own money to spend. I’m not sure it is a good idea. Should I let her work?
I am a preschool teacher and my children are showing an interest in writing. How do you feel about the emergent writing approach? Emergent writing, like emergent literacy, requires knowledge about each stage of the writing process. It makes sense to me and is worth exploration. Let’s begin by sorting out how writing develops.
Do you have a special childhood memory of spending time with your family? Is it cooking dinner with your mom or walking the dog with your dad? Special memories are often linked to daily routines in family life that gradually become family rituals.
Sometimes people say “I Love You” so often and mean it so lightly, that it loses its impact. Here are a few of the ways our family says and shows love to each other. When our son was very young, probably 2-3 years old, we did a lot of hand holding in order to get [...]
You’ve been waiting in line for the bathroom at the most popular bar at school for almost half-an-hour now. As you ponder what could possibly be taking the last posse of girls so long in the one-stall bathroom (they wouldn’t dare go alone!), you finally get to the door and see a well-groomed blonde sobbing, [...]