Family – The Art of Raising Children and Teenagers

Should You Get Your Baby’s Ears Pierced
In many parts of the world, ear piercing is done directly after birth, often in the hospital. However, in North America – piercing a baby’s ear is a matter of personal decision.
Worrying about Your Child’s Safety
In the book, Protecting the Gift, Gavin de Becker says in regard to parental worry, that “preparedness is a funny thing: there’s only so much of it a soul can stand because the problem with bracing for the worst is you have to imagine it first!”
My Baby Won’t Sleep
I think that when my baby won’t sleep he needs to be rocked. Let the Freudians and the parental saints of the world disagree with me, but rocking solves what I can consider to be either one of the major sleep disruptions without drugs, manic parenting, or otherwise unruly behavior.
Talking Equality When Raising Sons and Daughters
We protect our daughters. We permit our sons. The reality is that this type of parenting stunts a girl’s growth, her self-confidence and only drives home the extremely dated and unpopular belief that she is not equal to men. Not now, not ever.
Public Versus Private Schools
Rather than divulging facts and statistics about which is clinically better – it is more reasonable to consider the benefits to both and to discuss costs. Obviously, cost is a factor. Even families that wish to send their child to private schools, can expect costly tuition as well as uniform and other expenditures.
The Mom Purse
How can you tell if a woman is a mother? Is there a special look in her eyes? Is it in the jeans she is wearing? No. The easiest way to tell if a woman has had children or not, despite the tired look on her face, is the size of her purse.

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