Children are slimming down. At least that’s the message from a large national study playing in the media last week. Results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey published last week in JAMA show obesity rates in 2- to 5-year old children dropped by 43% from 2004 to 2012. …
Some potential pleasure reading for those women fresh off dinner-laundry-reading log duty. Does a More Equal Marriage Mean Less Sex? in the NY Times. Read it and weep, though, my feminist, husband-at-food-market friends. If you can’t stomach reading it, let me break it to you gently. Clinical psychologist and auteur, …
The past year in the parenting media. What can I say? I survived it. Kudos to you too for slogging through another year of suspect advice, warnings, threats and claims. We made it. To mark the occasion I briefly thought about assembling a review of the past year of parenting …
Black and Hispanic children are less likely to be diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity (ADHD). This is hardly new information but a study in Pediatrics of over 15,000 kids shows ethnic disparities in ADHD diagnoses appear as early as kindergarten and persist at least to eighth grade. By the spring of eighth grade, 7 percent of white …
A recent Pew Research survey showing 40% of households rely on the woman as the primary or sole breadwinner. Been talking about it then saw it cited in Stephanie Coontz’s op-ed in the New York Times this weekend, The Triumph of the Working Mother. Coontz argues among other points that …