Read a few book over the past year that might speak to parents keen on evidence and such. My annual reading list isn’t meant as an exhaustive review of great parenting books, this is not the usual Best Parenting Books mainly because I cannot claim to be terribly interested in …
There are parenting books and then there are parenting bibles… Like perennial fave”What to Expect When You’re Expecting” by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel that dropped off The New York Times paperback best sellers list on Sunday after…..391 weeks – that’s a reign of more than 7 years. Is this …
Grab the November issue of The New Yorker and thumb to The Child Trap: The Rise of Overparenting by Joan Acocella. It’s a good look at the recent parenting phenomenon – you know, spoiling (toys, few rules, too many birthday parties) combined with parental anxiety (are formula, tv, baby, germs, …
Pamela Paul, journalist, author, and mother, dropped a comment on my little old review of a review of her hot off-the presses book in The New York Times. No amateur she, Paul’s written extensively on social sciency-issues like parenting, marriage, and pornography. Though I haven’t yet read the book, I …
The $122,730 jungle gym. That caught my eye. The $800 stroller, the sleep coaches, the wipes warmers, the Baby Sign Language classes. Old news by now -especially to a mom of three kids whose spent nearly the last decade submerged, literally and figuratively, in parenting paraphenalia. Couldn’t stop thinking this …