Boys, Men, Babysitting, and the Future
I have a knee-jerk response to the idea of male teenage babysitters as well as a distrust and fear of grown men being child-care providers.
When I thought about why I felt a male teenage babysitter was ‘wrong’, my initial concern wasn’t that they would sexually abuse my children, because in my experience most teenage boys [...]
Stress Tied to Kids’ Bad Behavior
This is interesting…hardly news, but interesting:
A combination of nature and nurture may make some children more likely to develop behavioral problems, new research suggests.
In a study of 138 children, researchers found that it wasn’t only the children’s exposure to stress, but their bodies’ reactions to the stress, that affected their future behavior.
Young children who had [...]
Kids and the Internet
I let my kids on the internet. I don’t do so because I think they need net skills to be ‘competitive’, I do so because there are a lot of interesting, educational, and just plain entertaining sites out there for kids. With my two younger children I am in the same room with them and [...]
