Showing posts from: Parenting
Parenting: Draw your own circles
Parenting: Toilet Training Is Not a Parenting Test
Teenagers: Maturing and “THE Talk”
Most Important Parenting, When It Appears The Least
Parenting: Four bad ages
Choose Your Battles With Teens Over Hair and Clothing
Sleep Problems: Older Children, Toddlers, Stumbling Blocks
It seems like I can’t escape dealing with sleep problems (yep, they’re that common) and just as difficult to answer.
Narrowing it a bit (at least in my mind) to three groups: Infants, toddler-big kids (schoolers) and biggest kids (teens).
I’ve covered infants and some teens. Now some issues of toddler-big kids. Read more →
When Should School Start For Teens
Dr. Troxel is the mother of a teen who she claims needs extraordinary measures to awaken for the early start times of their school district. And it’s not due to Snapchat, social life or hormones she says; but rather: public school policy!
School Start Times
When is too early and why it matters
Wendy Troxel is not only a mother of a teen but is a fairly renowned sleep researcher and explains that “teens don’t get enough sleep” and that “early school district start times deprive adolescents of sleep during the time of their lives when they need it most.”
Being a Senior Behavioral and Social Scientist at RAND and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh she should know. Much of her research is funded by the National Heart-Lung institute, the NIH and the DOD and focuses on the interface between sleep, social environment and health as well as its implications for public policy.
The bottom line: “school start-times for teens should not be before 8:30 AM.” What time does your teen need to report to school?
Telling Truth or Lies to Children: Parenting
Even though I’ve never met him, my brother from another mother Dr. Greg Barrett beat me yet again to writing another parenting article and literally took the words right out of my mouth: Telling truth or lies to children—being honest with your children.
So much so it’s going to be hard giving you my personal take on this important part of parenting without feeling like I’m just repeating what he said: whether or not to tell the truth or lie to your children.
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Discipline, Parents, Kids and “Natural Consequences”
I got a kick discovering an “atlas” of parenting and discipline types (according to Laura Hamilton at UC-Merced CA) who tallied three categories: Bystander parents with limited kid contact; Paramedics swooping in for major problems; and, Helicopters always hovering all the time.
I say a kick because although entertainingly descriptive (and perhaps embarrassingly accurate to a degree) it just seems to leave a WHOLE LOT out of the equation—and ignore half of it entirely: the kid!
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Parenting: Discipline
“Discipline,” that’s a 200-pound-gorilla-in-the-room topic if I ever heard one!
These days the so-called “do-gooders,” “haters” and “conspiracy theorists” all over the internet have made poor parents fear even the word “discipline”… let alone actually giving it to their child. But “discipline” is different than “punishment” you know.
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