parenting

Hi all, what do you think? Both positive and negative feedback are welcome (but as always...keep it classy...) General argument what more can you tell to your child in life, than have fun and be careful? What is my reasoning for saying this? Because if you tell your child to do something else...

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/controversial-free-range-parenting-now-legal-utah-heres-means-203114763.html There have been stories in the media about parents charged with child abuse or losing custody of their kids for allowing them to be alone at home or walking alone to/from school or a...

A bit of a "well duh" but here's more research that shows that corporal punishment of children is a bad idea. The study reviews more than fifty years of research, covering more than 160,000 children and demonstrates conclusively that physical punishment of children is ineffective but can lead to...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/8690785.stm The parents surely should face manslaughter charges at least. How do they get away with it? EVen adults who refuse treatment on religious grounds,aren't they comitting assisted suicide of sorts(medical staff not treating them...

CNN recently conducted a pilot study on how kids see race: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/13/doll.study/index.html Generally, the results show that dark skin is more often than not associated with negative judgments, such as "bad" or "dumb." Shocking. Also implied is that these are but...

I've wondered this a few times. Christians seem very fond of comparing God to a parent, and yet their examples always horrify me. Yes, we can agree that parents sometimes need to punish children, but this gets extended to it being acceptable for a parent to punish a child for all eternity over a...

A lot of people around the world are robbed, subjugated, tortured, and even murdered by despotic governments and/or totalitarian religious thugs. So it's a fine thing for a free nation to have a tradition of sheltering political refugees who are facing certain imprisonment or death at home for...

US Grants Home Schooling German Family Political Asylum While it seems a social issue at first glance, it's really doubly political: international, as well as the propriety of government demanding how you educate your children.

Imagine being told your child will be removed from your home because s/he is morbidly obese and you are a neglectful and abusive parent for allowing this to happen. I know that I have watched several tv programs about obesity and when I see an obese child I can't help but wonder what the...

I wish to compare, mostly for the sake of argument, the act of murder and the act of choosing not to have children when it's possible for you to do so. I'm not coming at this from any particular ideological or religious angle and am genuinely stuck about this sort of tricky idea. I should add...

Last September, my wife and I welcomed our first child into this world. He's a biasedly beautiful bouncing baby boy. Now that he's starting to go through some of the more major developmental stages I've been pondering the question of Santa Claus. That is, the question of do I lie to my son...

What are we? Are we the product of our environment/genes, our upbringing, or both? If both, in what ratio does nature vs nurture work out? Do good parents necessarily bring up "good" kids? Can people overcome a genetic predisposition to non-mental-illness issues? Lots of questions and I've...

"Oh, he got out again." When my (beautiful) daughter was at 5 months, she developed a severe case of RSV. When our pediatrician admitted her to the hospital and put her in an oxygen tent, he told us that one of two things would happen - her O2 would go up and her serum antibodies would go down...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=8&u=/ap/20041209/ap_on_re_us/parental_snooping "Striking a blow for rebellious teenagers, the Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday that state law prohibits parents from eavesdropping on a child's phone conversations. " Guess this kind...

Here we go again: Why, oh why do people like this have children? It's crimes like this that makes bringing back torture seem like the right thing to do. (No, I'm not advocating that, just venting some frustration)