Mar 18 2013
By Deborah Kolben at 3:59 pm
All the parenting news you probably didn’t have time to read this week.
-Dispute at a Colorado school over which bathroom a transgendered 6-year-old has the right to use. (New York Times)
-Maurice Sendak was a lovable but surly old man. In his blistering, bizarre final interview hear what he has to say about Alec Baldwin, Steven Spielberg, and Meryl Streep (hint: it ain’t pretty). (The New Republic)
-For those of use who like a little more, um, plastic on our mannequins, we bring you these zaftig gems straight from Sweden. (The Washington Post)
-On its cover this week, New York Magazine is reporting on a new “trend” of feminist housewives. When you have time to read the 6,000 word missive, I’m sure you will have strong opinions about it. (New York Magazine)
Mar 11 2013
By Molly Tolsky at 3:23 pm
All the parenting news you probably didn’t have time to read this week.
- Anne-Marie “Women Can’t Have it All” Slaughter reviews Sheryl Sandberg’s new book Lean In for the New York Times. She heaps a nice amount of praise on Sandberg for her “intelligence and ferocious work ethic” but still questions why Sandberg is only challenging women to lean in, and not businesses themselves. (NYT)
- Speaking of leaning in, Jody Miller writers for the Wall Street Journal that, “More great women don’t ‘lean in’ because they don’t like the world they’re being asked to lean into.” Meaning, those 60+ hour work-weeks are what really need to change. (WSJ)
- What happens when an ultra-Orthodox woman doesn’t want to have the high number of kids she’s expected to have? A harrowing story of miscarriage, depression, and motherhood. (Forward)
- Is having a child a rational decision? According to a new paper, it’s neither rational nor irrational, but outside the scope of rational decision making all together. (NPR)
Mar 4 2013
By Molly Tolsky at 3:55 pm
All the parenting news you probably didn’t have time to read this week.
- On the Forward’s Sisterhood blog, a plea to give Sheryl Sandberg a break, who is “hardly the worst thing to happen to intelligent women since the “Real Housewives” franchise.” (Forward)
- Horrible news out of Brooklyn this weekend: expectant Hasidic couple Nachman and Raizel Glauber were killed in a hit-and-run accident on their way to the hospital. Their baby was delivered, but passed away this morning. Baruch dayan haemet. (New York Daily News)
- In what may be the worst headline of the year, the New York Times let’s us know “The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking” after some 42,500 Nazi ghettos and camps throughout Europe were cataloged in continuous research done by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (NYT)
- “Bonnie Franklin, the pert, redheaded actress whom millions came to identify with for her role as divorced mom Ann Romano on the long-running sitcom ‘One Day at a Time,’ has died.” Both her parents were Jewish. (WSJ)
Feb 19 2013
By Molly Tolsky at 4:43 pm
All the parenting news you probably didn’t have time to read this week.
- A Texas woman gave birth to two sets of identical twins (that’s quadruplets, people) and in case you were wondering the chances of that, it’s “one in many, many millions.” (Health on Today)
- Watching Sesame Street instead of adult television can make kids less aggressive. Can we get a duh? (NYT)
- A look at Chelyabinsk, a strange town that saved one writer’s grandparents during the Holocaust, and then fell to meteor hellfire last week. (Forward)
- We were very saddened to hear about the loss of Emily Rapp’s son Ronan, who suffered from Tay-Sachs Disease. Rapp wrote about her son’s story in her book The Still Point of the Turning World. (Little Seal)
Feb 11 2013
By Molly Tolsky at 2:50 pm
All the parenting news you probably didn’t have time to read this week.
- Hello Kitty has officially been sent into space, thanks to 12-year-old Lauren Rojas who crafted a rocket for a science project and used a Hello Kitty doll as the astronaut. The doll reached 93,625 feet and captured some amazing video footage. (ABC News)
- Dolce & Gabanna has released a new fragrance for babies. The perfume is meant to enhance that new baby smell and gets its inspiration from “the softness of baby skin, the freshness of baby breath, a mother’s sweet hug, [and] the first smile.” Okay then. (TIME)
- Ten women were detained by Israeli police at the Western Wall on Monday for wearing prayer shawls, including Susan Silverman, a reform rabbi and comedian Sarah Silverman’s sister. (Forward)
- The Chinese Year of the Dragon came to a close this weekend, wrapping up one of the busiest years for baby making in China by couples attracted to the powerful symbol. (Atlantic)
Feb 4 2013
By Molly Tolsky at 4:21 pm
All the parenting news you probably didn’t have time to read this week.
- When 3-year-old Shepherd Strauss got sick, his parents turned to doctors and drugs. But they couldn’t anticipate that what would help him feel better didn’t come with a prescription. (NYT)
- Forget overpopulation–why the drop in fertility rates among Americans might be our biggest problem yet. (WSJ)
- Kveller’s own Jordana Horn writes in the Forward about the ever popular decision: where to send your Jewish kids to summer camp. (Forward)
- Half of adult children think their parents made no money mistakes. On the other hand, parents are quick to list the financial miscues of their adult children, including credit card debt and not enough savings. (Time)
Jan 28 2013
By Tamar Fox at 2:25 pm
All the parenting news you probably didn’t have time to read this week.
- This short video provides a succinct roundup of some of the most intense baby-monitoring technology out there, from apps and cameras to bluetooth onesies and motorized strollers. Spoiler alert: most of it probably isn’t worth buying. (BBC News)
- Dads get credit for being great parents when they’re really just doing the basics–further proof that expectations for dads are appallingly low. (The Atlantic)
- Stay-at-home-dads are using tech and DIY skills to bring a sense of masculinity, the way that women in the workplace have brought listening and empathy to office culture. Um, okay. (Wall Street Journal)
- OB/GYNs are being trained to look for signs that a male partner is intimidating a female partner into getting pregnant when she doesn’t want to be, and/or sabotaging birth control efforts–a surprisingly prevalent problem. (NPR)
Jan 21 2013
By Tamar Fox at 3:52 pm
All the parenting news you probably didn’t have time to read this week.
- There’s a Million Moms March for Gun Control in NYC today, and a national march in Washington DC on Jan 26th. (NY Times)
- Parents in the US lie to their kids less than parents in China. (Science Daily)
- Part of the President’s gun control initiative involves training teachers and school employees to spot mental illness so that children suffering from mental illnesses can be treated as the diseases are developing. (NPR)
- Not sure how this qualifies as news, but a new study shows that moms suffer from lots of guilt related to parenting, specifically for not spending enough time with kids, and being too busy and too tired. Duh. (The Telegraph)
Jan 14 2013
By Tamar Fox at 3:59 pm
All the parenting news you probably didn’t have time to read this week.
- Some parents whose kids have yoga programs at school are pulling their kids out of those classes because they don’t want their children to become Hindus. (NPR)
- You’ve probably been told not to bribe your kid, but you probably do it anyway. Is creative bribery the answer? (NY Times)
- Jessica Grose offers a new plan for maternity leave. Give more of it (duh) and allow parents to take it anytime during the first year of the child’s life. (Slate)
- A surprising number of families are trying complementary and alternative medicine on their kids’ medical conditions before taking the children to a doctor, and many aren’t telling the doctors about the other treatments they’re trying. Not shockingly, this is not a good way of doing things. (TIME)
Jan 7 2013
By Tamar Fox at 3:50 pm
All the parenting news you probably didn’t have time to read this week.
- When your doctor prescribes an antibiotic to your child for an ear infection, they may be doing so without cause. Sometimes the best thing to do is wait out the infection, instead of ineffectively treating it with drugs. (But no word on exactly how you should deal with a kid in agony.) (Slate)
- One mom reflects on what it’s like to move through a few religious identities and end up with nothing, raising her children without religion. (Boston Magazine)
- The parents of the two Manhattan children murdered by their nanny in October have spoken out on their Facebook page about their loss and living with their one living child. (Yahoo news)
- Teens on sports teams and teens who exercise have a more positive self image and greater self esteem than their less sports-oriented peers, but it’s unclear if this is causation or correlation (i.e. are more confident teens more likely to join sports teams, or does being on a sports team make teens more confident?). (NPR)
