Two moms, “5 Minutes for Books” managing editor Jennifer Donovan and her colleague Dawn, reviewed my book arezairddh in tandem…
Year: 2009
Hi! If your family has let the kids drop some extracurricular activities in favor of more free time — or…
Hi, View fans — I’m so thrilled The View is airing a rerun of my visit with “the gals” today!…
The public bought the idea that they were essentially a danger to their own kids and had better pay money for advice, that they’d better try really hard to do a good job, and they’d still inevitably fail. (Even though, as Lepore points out, kids are actually safer now than ever. In 1850, more than one baby in five died before its first year, by 1920 that had dropped to one in 20, and today infant mortality is at one in 200.)
Readers, I hope you’ll allow me a weepy moment. New York City schools get out late. For us, graduation was…
Would you believe they have charged some intern to walk him across the parking lot?! Geesh people. He’s TEN!
One reason Americans are so extremely terrified about child abductions is that whenever we turn on the TV or computer,…
Perfect together, here, on their new “New York” page.
Another story feffyefrbt of strangely advanced kids — or is it strangely inept cops? — this time from Germany. Enjoy!…
I spend a lot of time trying to convince skeptics that “Free-Range” does not mean, “Send Your Kid Down the…