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You’re A New Mother… Oh, The Places You’ll Get Unsolicited Advice!
Congratulations! Today you gave birth. You’re on a new adventure! Your hips a wider girth! Baby brain’s in your head. Baby books in your hand. You now find yourself In a sleep-deprived land. You’re a new mother. And you know what you know. Which is next to nothing, or so you are told… My breath…
Smart Ways To Manage Your Kids’ Tech Use
School’s out for the summer! When I was a kid, this meant swimming, biking places to meet friends, staying outside (not being allowed inside) until dinner, the beach, and summer camps. Today, know what this means for kids? More screen time, more opportunities to chronicle every second of their summer break on Instagram or Snapchat…
Moms Who Kill Their Kids
Its the motherlode of motherhoods darkest topics, guaranteed to make you recoil even if you have personal familiarity with miscarriage, infertility, birth defects, stillborn infants or child abuse: moms who kill their own kids. The predictable reaction when a mom murders children: headlines sure to inspire shock and horror.
Protecting Our Daughters from Campus Rape
In 1983, I was a Harvard freshman. I was happy to be at Harvard, naturally. Harvard was pleased too, mostly because the college, which had welcomed female students for only 11 years, had recently taken progressive steps to protect us from being raped on campus. During freshman orientation, the campus police proudly showed female students all the blue light phones that had been installed on campus walkways. If you ran to the phone at night …
School Shootings and Why Boys Need Boys
Amidst the shock, horror, grief, and fury over school shootings, we all look for the cause of the violence, and the solution to stopping the next attack. Some reason we need more guns — armed schoolteachers and guards. Others argue for fewer guns, regulated by stricter legislation. Mental health professionals maintain that we need better treatment and medication of troubled kids. Others blame allegedly reckless antidepressant overmedication by mental health professionals. The ferocious debate overlooks one …