The Life, the Universe, and Everything
In the spirit of the Family Day
From the web-site www.parenting-boys.com
Are You Ready for Children?
Mess Test: Smear peanut butter on the sofa and curtains. Now rub your hands in the wet flowerbed and rub on the walls. Cover the stains with crayons. Place a fish stick behind the couch and leave it there all summer.
Toy Test: [...]
It is a family day in Canada. I am reading books on parenting because my six-year-old son alone gives me as much headaches as (I am assuming, of course) a whole soccer team would. I am reading on parenting and I am still nowhere.
That is an excerpt from Jeffrey Bernstein “Liking the Child You Love”.
Joking [...]
I have a little trouble-maker at home, that is, my son, a six year old. Clever, defiant and impossible to manage. I have reached an impasse and now I am on the quest for solutions.
I read some books, but they turned out to be useless. This is a new approach from Alfie Kohn “Unconditional parenting”. [...]
RESPONSE ESSAY
In her article “Roll Back the Red Carpet for Boys”, Donna Laframboise points out that feminism has caused a significant warp in societal perception of which sex is being more discriminated than the other. The facts tell us that males, especially in their early ages, face more troubles than females. Yet, society remains blind [...]
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