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Autism in US More Prevalent than First Thought: 1 in 150 American Children Has Developmental Disorder (Article from “60 Minutes: HealthWatch website”)
I first saw this article on CNN’s website and it both intrigued and worried me. My son Michael was diagnosed as autistic when he was 2 years old; I knew many other mothers with […]

“All that kid needs is some good discipline!”
“If you would just discipline your kids, they would behave.”
Everyone throws around the word discipline, but have you ever looked up its meaning since you first learned how to spell it in elementary school?
The word discipline comes from the same root as disciple. Discipulus in latin means pupil, […]

Welcome to Hot Stuff, I have to say I love all the nominations this week, I’m expecting a tight race. As always, please visit the links and vote for your favourite in the comments. Please note that you will have an extra day, from now on voting will close on a friday.
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You know that person who claims they know where everything is? She has piles of paper all over her desk and her clothes are piled willy-nilly on the closet floor. The filing cabinet looks more like a trash bin, and the kitchen counter? Forget about it.
I am that person.
The photograph you see to the left […]

A Little Greener

How do you set boundaries to babies that can’t really communicate, or do you just react to their every whim?

[tags]quick question, parents, quiet time, private time[/tags]

My column this week is in response to an article recently posted in our Parenting In The Media section about making spanking illegal.
Since reading the article, and others similar, I’ve been considering both sides. As someone who has fought for civil liberties all his adult life, I appreciate folks who say, “What I do in […]

According to the Associated Press, schools in Massachusetts, New Mexico, DC, New York, and others are experimenting (or considering experimenting) with an eight-hour school day. Here is a key section to the article:

An important impetus for the debate around extending school hours is the federal No Child Left Behind law.

The five-year-old law requires annual […]

I’m a little late to the game here but it seems everyone else is too! A quick check on technorati revealed virtually no blogging about Children’s Dental Health Month this February. Am I the only one who thinks it’s important enough to blog about? Could it be because I’m the daughter of a dentist? Maybe […]

It seems that in any article where I start comparing my husband’s upbringing to mine needs to come with the disclaimer that we grew up very differently. My husband is an only child, son to older parents, whose mom stayed home with him his entire life. I was one of two children, to […]