How do I teach my son about 9/11?
At 7, my son loves to read. One day earlier this year, he was flipping through the pages of a children's encyclopedia from the 1990s. He stopped at a glossy photo of the New York skyline that included two enormous …
Category: Parenting
Since the Start of the Great Recession, More Children Raised by Grandparents
One child in ten in the United States lives with a grandparent, a share that increased slowly and steadily over the past decade before rising sharply from 2007 to 2008, the first year of the Great Recession, according to a …
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'The iConnected Parent'
With the start of a new academic year -- and a new crop of freshmen leaving home for the first time -- comes the now-inevitable round of articles about the parents who have a little too much trouble letting go …
Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study Habits
Every September, millions of parents try a kind of psychological witchcraft, to transform their summer-glazed campers into fall students, their video-bugs into bookworms. Advice is cheap and all too familiar: Clear a quiet work space. Stick to a homework schedule. …
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Who Hates Making School Lunch?
Jennifer Rosenstrach loves dinner. Loves it so much that Rosenstrach, a freelance writer and editor, has created a Web site, DinneraLoveStory.com, devoted to “helping parents figure out how to get family dinner on the table.” Loves it so much that …
Equally Shared Divorce
Not everything fits in a magazine article, even in 8,000 words, and one path of reporting that didn’t make it into this week’s story was how examples of sharing can be found in a most unexpected place — among divorced …
Second Thoughts About Parenting
THE SEVEN-YEAR ITCH By Alison Patton As a divorce lawyer, I saw it all the time: the disillusionment, the end of the dream, the realization that your spouse is flawed (and for the more enlightened, an awareness of your own …
Do Daughters Cause Divorce?
Parents of girls are 5 percent more likely to divorce than parents of boys. Economists first analyzed the data that way in 2003, when Gordon Dahl at the University of Rochester and Enrico Moretti at U.C.L.A., identified that gap, and …
Custody lines blur when parents cross international waters
Six years after two young Reston boys were taken to Germany by their mother, the father of the boys still is fighting to have them returned. Gregory Gardner, 38, who married a German national living in the U.S. only two …
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Family Counseling and Therapy Can Help Your Family
No one wants to think that their family requires family counseling and therapy, but sometimes it really is necessary. A family that is having trouble will benefit from having outside help. Sometimes it just isn’t possible to solve everything yourself …
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