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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
