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May
11
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The cover of Time Magazine has been lighting up the web since it debuted the other day. If you haven’t seen it yet, it shows a mom breastfeeding her 3-year-old son as he stands on a chair. The title of the article is Are You Mom Enough? (Please. This is not a cage match. It’s parenting.) The photographer on this shoot said he purposely positioned the mother and child this way to accentuate the child’s age. Call me crazy, but I just think it was a deliberate and crass attempt to sell magazines. | |||
Blog Posts by Elisabeth Wilkins, EP Editor
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May
10
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There have been a lot of boneheaded parenting moves in the news lately. From the Tanning Bed Mom, who allegedly brought her kindergartner into a tanning booth with her, to the drunken couple in Florida who took their 7-year-old granddaughter on a joy ride by attaching her plastic car to their SUV with a dog leash and then driving around the neighborhood, it leads me to wonder: “Didn’t anyone stop and tell these people that this was a bad idea?” | |||
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Apr
19
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Congratulations are in order for Debbie Pincus, MS LMHC, longtime contributor to Empowering Parents and the creator of The Calm Parent: AM and PM program! It was announced earlier this week that The Calm Parent has been given a coveted “Parent Tested, Parent Approved” award. | |||
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Apr
18
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Are we overreacting to young kids’ tantrums? Earlier this week, a six-year-old girl was handcuffed by police, arms behind her back, and taken away to the police station. Kindergartner Salecia Johnson was apparently throwing books and toys atΒ her small school in Midgeville, Georgia, located about 90 miles outside of Atlanta, which caused school administrators to call the authorities. She threw a shelf, which then hit the principal in the leg and jumped on a paper shredder, trying to break the glass frame. | |||
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Mar
28
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What do you think of the idea to use locator chips on your child to track school truancy or alert you to the fact that your child is cutting classes? | |||
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Mar
23
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When do you decide there’s just too much physical contact among students? A principal at the Matawan-Aberdeen Middle School in NJ, whose students range in age from 11 to 14, decreed that the school would not allow hugging anymore after incidents of “unsuitable physical interactions.” | |||
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Mar
09
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When a 2-year-old girl had a meltdown on a recent JetBlue flight from the Caribbean to Boston, the pilot made a command decision. He turned the plane around on the Tarmac and kicked the whole family of four off the plane. Was he justified in his actions? | |||
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Mar
09
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Does your child snore, breathe through his mouth when he sleeps, or have sleep apnea — and were those same sleep patterns present when he was a baby or toddler? (Check, check and check, in my son’s case.) If so, experts say that could have a connection to his behavior. | |||
