Parenting: Now vs. the 1960s
(Laura's note: I'm taking the week off and revisiting some blog posts from years past. This post ran in spring of 2010). Tara Parker-Pope's Well blog …Read More
Category Archives: Parenting & Family
Equally Shared Parenting
(Laura's note: I'm taking the week off, and revisiting some posts from past years. This book review ran in January of 2010). Over the past few …Read More
Create one-on-one time with each kid
(Laura's note: I'm taking the week off, so we'll be revisiting a few old blog posts this week. This one was from September 2010, when …Read More
ATM Book Club Week 7 (Chapter 6)
I'm running an informal book club on the blog devoted to All the Money in the World. You can join at any time; there are …Read More
Is anything all-consuming?
Maybe I’m just sensitive, but I’ve been reading a fair number of acknowledgements in books lately that talk of book-writing as an “all consuming” process. …Read More
When it comes to happiness, “memorable” can trump “fun”
(Laura's note: this is a guest post of mine that ran on I Should Log Off, the blog of Danny and Jillian Tobias. Alert readers …Read More
This is how we do it
168 hours -- the amount we all have per week -- is a lot of time. I maintain that it is enough time to build …Read More
Paleopalooza!
Over the weekend, we got to meet Dr. Scott, the paleontologist.Those of you with preschoolers may know just how big a deal this is. “Dr. …Read More
Fragmentation
Effective time-management means taking big goals, breaking them down into doable chunks, and then getting those tasks on the schedule. But what defines a "doable chunk"? I …Read More
Merit Badge Parenting
Last week, I wrote about the "merit badge mindset" -- how we could give ourselves the satisfaction of external rewards and validation for things that …Read More