The movie that best illustrates today’s parenting expectations is “The Miracle Worker,” about Helen Keller. When Annie Sullivan is hired…
Over at Reason you’ll find my story of one Ms. Gordon (no first names — she’s been harassed enough). Ms.…
Just re-discovered this oh-so-wonderful poem by Carrie Shipers of Wisconsin, author of Family Resemblances: Poems (University of New Mexico Press). It was published on…
We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all children are created playful, that they are endowed with certain inalienable…
On Twitter (forgive me!) I asked if anyone who’d been a camper back in the day wished their parents had…
More than half of all 14-year-olds are NOT ALLOWED OFF THEIR BLOCK (finds an Institute for Family Studies survey of…
Bi-partisan bill would stop investigating Free-Range parents Son in Famous Meitivs of Maryland Case Weighs In — as Does His…
Everyone’s watching the Netflix 4-parter Lord of the Flies. So let me repeat what the great Peter Gray says about…
The social commentator Matthew Yglesias posted a note about his son’s childhood on Twitter yesterday — under an amazing (and,…
“Lenore, did you say you don’t CARE about kids and phones?” That’s what a child psychologist just emailed me. MY…