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CategoryDo ALL Parents Love One Child More?
If you aren’t talking about this already, you will be soon. The cover of the latest issue of Time magazine carries the title “Why MREAD MORE
Preschoolers, Name Calling and the Authorities
When do children come to understand the power of their words? Until they do, how can you hold them respoREAD MORE
Night-Shift Moms
Juggling parenting with paid work means keeping a constant eye on the clock, thinking of all you could do if there were only a few READ MORE
The Child Becomes the Parent
Please Don’t Say ‘Break a Leg’
The first thing I did on the “National Day of Unplugging” was use a cellphone. To call an ambulance. For myself.
In other words, mREAD MORE
Motherlode 101
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After Tucson, Parents Wonder, What If?
Children’s Books You Might Hate
Working Moms are Fine for Kids
Eight years ago, researchers at Columbia University worried a lot of new parents when they concluded that children whose mothers leREAD MORE
The Evolution of Dad
Ad-Libbed Parenting
Two memories of my early parenting:
First, my older son was about 2, and learning the word “no” (plus the attitude that accompanREAD MORE
Why Does Anyone Have Children?
Can Parenting Truly Be Equal?
Illustration by Barry Falls
In the comments about my sleep post yesterday, Stella wrote: “I think women need to be more firm inREAD MORE
Why Women Don’t Get Enough Sleep
Should A Quadriplegic Mom Have Custody?
Does Parenting Make You Stupid
Over at Salon.com, Aaron Traister has a response, of sorts, to those childless folks (you’ve met some of them here on Motherlode ovREAD MORE
Why Women Wake When a Baby Cries
Illustration by Barry Falls
What sound is most likely to wake a sleeping woman? An infant’s wail — and that is true whether or noREAD MORE
Taking a Daughter to the Men’s Room
A new sign in the women’s locker room of my neighborhood gym tells me “boys over the age of 5 are not permitted.” I am told thereREAD MORE
How to Send Your Son Off to College
Illustration by Barry Falls
1. Realize it is well past time to go shopping. Sit down with him and make a list, vowing to keep it READ MORE
It’s Not Your Mom and Dad’s Parenting
So much of how you parent is shaped by how you were parented. There are things you do in the same way, because you see them as corrREAD MORE
A Baby Graduates
By the end of today (or tomorrow, if it pours all afternoon) my son will be a high school graduate. I will watch kids I have knowREAD MORE
Growing Up Too Fast
Two stories in the Times over the past few days raise the same kinds of questions: How young is too young? When did childhood becomREAD MORE
Do We Blame the Columbine Parents?
Where were their parents?
That was the thought I couldn’t shake ten years ago as news broke from Littleton, Colo., and all camerasREAD MORE
Does Having Children Make You Unhappy?
Children do not bring happiness. In fact more often they seem to bring unhappiness. That is the conclusion of one academic study afREAD MORE
What a Mother Learns in 18 Years
On St. Patrick’s Day, 18 years ago, I became a mother.
I knew nothing about parenting that day. I had held an infant only once befREAD MORE
In Defense of Helicopter Parents
I have helicoptering tendencies. I like to think that awareness of the problem is part of its prevention, but when it comes to my cREAD MORE
Untangling Nature from Nurture
Any parent with more than one child can feel like a lab scientist, unraveling the questions of nature vs. nurture. On the one hand,READ MORE
Employed Dads at Home
A thought to file under “let’s try to find a silver lining.”
Any minute now there may be more women in the workplace than men. As READ MORE
Flying Alone with (Very) Small Kids
Illustration by Barry Falls
It’s wonderful to BE home for the holidays, but not always so wonderful actually GETTING there. This READ MORE
At What Age Would You Let Your Child…
How old is old enough?
The question runs like an invisible thread through most of the conversation here yesterday about how to keeREAD MORE
Welcome to Motherlode
Almost everything I thought parenting would be back before I had children has turned out to be wrong. I thought all those people weREAD MORE
Is Banked Cord Blood Worth It?
Illustration by Barry Falls
There was a lot of talk on Monday about stem cells. Today let’s talk about cord blood, a source of stREAD MORE