Parenting
Live and Learn: The Advantages of Taking a Gap Year
Want your kid to ace college? Make him wait for it.
Five Things I Learned from Watching the Olympics with My Kids
1. TV is not necessarily evil. We don’t watch much television in our house, in part because we don’t have a TV set in our […]
My Six-Year-Old Daughter Will Never Be An Olympic Gymnast
Like millions of girls across the country, my six-year-old daughter recently decided she wants to be an Olympic gymnast. I don’t have the heart to […]
Did Helicopter Parenting Bring Down Jonah Lehrer?
According to Judith Warner, the new must-read parenting book, Madeline Levine’s Teach Your Children Well, is “a cri de couer from a clinician on the […]
Appreciating the Ordinary: A Modest Proposal
After wending our way through heated discussions about having it all, spoiling our kids, and being mired in our self-important “Busy Traps,” a New York […]
The New, New Thing Parents Are Doing Wrong
The title of Elizabeth Kolbert’s piece in The New Yorker — “Why Are American Kids So Spoiled?” — was too close to the bone to […]
Didn't We Never Have It All?
Anne Marie Slaughter’s July cover story in The Atlantic is causing quite a stir. In it she details how she left a top post in […]
Didn't We Never Have It All?
Anne Marie Slaughter’s July cover story in The Atlantic is causing quite a stir. In it she details how she left a top post in […]
Didn't We Never Have It All?
Anne Marie Slaughter’s July cover story in The Atlantic is causing quite a stir. In it she details how she left a top post in […]
Using Social Media for Social Good
Given that my professional life is so digitally oriented, it’s not surprising that my 7-year-old daughter Laurel is well informed about technology. She knows that […]
Low-Tech Tips for High-Tech Parents
Here’s a universal truth: We parents want only the best for our kids. If that means spending a bit more for the latest technology, so […]
Social Media is Here to Stay
So much of the discussion about social media and children seems to be of the “Should we expose them to it?” ilk — but that […]
How Young is Too Young for Cell Phones and Facebook?
A common question we receive from many parents is, “At what age should I give my child a cell phone or allow them to be […]
Self-Discovery in the Digital Era
When I began teaching seven years ago, I felt compelled to provide a longwinded explanation about social networking to my high school journalism class. During […]