My friend and colleague Laura Olson came and spoke to my Child Development class on Monday. Within her two hour (very informative and fun) lecture, was this gem:
Birth to seven years old: Parents make the decisions.
Seven to fourteen years old: Parents listen to the child, then make the decision.
Fourteen years old through high school: Parents [...]
Archives for October, 2008
Short advice for parents: How to make decisions
Update on the thiefs…
Their site has been disabled. Hooray!
Thanks for all your kind comments and e-mails - let’s have a party!
(If you’re confused, see the post below. Or click here.)
Blogs and thiefs
Yesterday - as with most days - I had more on my schedule than I could realistically get done. About midday, as I was triaging, I noticed that there was a new link to my blog somewhere out there in the Internetz. Generally I try and click through to anyone that’s linked to my blog [...]
Making menstruation personal again
Have you read Joan Jacob Brumberg’s The Body Project? If you have not, put down your computer and run - literally RUN! - to the nearest bookstore/library, get yourself a copy, and start reading.
Okay, so maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration. But it is truly worth a read for the historical context and insight [...]
Sluts abound
Welcome to Halloween Season, folks.
Around my house, Halloween means everyone gets dressed up in something absolutely freaking adorable and runs around like little hooligans, trying to scam candy. (Yes, this includes me and my husband. I may even be reduced to putting up a picture later this week…we’ll see.)
But then, my kids are 4 and [...]
On gender, sexual orientation, and children
I am thinking this morning about a blog post by Hugo Schwyzer and The Atlantic article I read yesterday.
Hugo’s post is his response to a question about a bisexual man who is in a monogamous marriage with a woman, and what that means. The Atlantic article is about transgendered children, the range of reactions and [...]
Preventing HIV
RH Reality Check is a great organization that serves individuals and organizations committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights. One way RH Reality Check does it’s great work is through a series of videos called Our Reality Video Series.
For the moment, here is an interview with two women living with HIV. They [...]
Top Ten Things To Do Before You Have Sex: A list for teenagers
This is actually an old post. But I have had many requests for it again recently, and so thought it was worth bumping back up to the front for a day. And yes, this is something to show your teenagers if you think they’re thinking about starting to - or have already started - having [...]
Why sex education? Why now?
What do your kids know about sex?
It’s often hard to say, particularly around those middle school years and the first years of high school. Much before that, and as a parent you can assume that they’ve learned everything they know either from you, their school, or some other place that you’re aware of. Towards the [...]
Advertisements - the good, the bad, and the ugly
Happy Friday!
I had a serious post in the works that went back to Wednesday’s post about The Hurried Child, addressing Dr. Elkind’s assertion that middle school and even early high school is too young for sex education and that a class is an inappropriate place for sex education to be taking place. But it’s Friday [...]
