“Don’t be fooled,” laughs Kerin Morgan, owner of Richmondbased Morgan Swim School. “Kids can do so much more than you think.” It is the last lesson of the day for…
Browsing: Parenting
I chose to blog about The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom by Amy Chua in the hope that reading the book would motivate me to become more disciplined, make…
“Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything.” Therefore, when her daughters gave her homemade birthday cards she deemed unacceptable, Chua gave them back. “I want a better one…
“America changes people,” Amy Chua writes. It’s this kind of statement and the anecdotes that follow about how she married a non-Chinese man and how her youngest sister, who was…
I realize The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua isn’t a parenting book, but when I read her article in The Wall Street Journal in January, “Why…
According to Help! My Kid is Driving Me Crazy, “Children demand instant gratification, and toward that end they use tools that they acquire through trial and error to satisfy short-term…
“Your goal is nurturing, protecting, and strengthening your child so he can learn to operate in the world successfully,” argues David Swanson, author of Help – My Kid is Driving…
I must admit I almost skipped the chapter on “Facing the Abstinence Decision” because I have no intention of telling my daughters to abstain from sex until marriage. As far…
Just because you’ve destroyed the bad photographs proving you suffered through the awkward stages of adolescence chances are that doesn’t mean you were able to erase it from your memory. …
“How can I give my daughter a healthy attitude toward sex but prevent her from having any?” authors Justin Richardson and Mark Schuster claim a lot of parents want to…
“All of the psychology courses I had taken had warned of the dangers of the self-fulfilling prophecy. If you labeled a child as a slow learner, he could begin to…
The timeline of each of my daughters’ lives seems to be drawn along a series of milestones. I handled the transition from crawling to walking relatively well. I braved the…