This is our new world, according to Google Analytics. After months of getting traffic (people coming to our site) from people we had some relationship with – either users of the site clicking through an email or punching us up directly in their browser (Orange in the pie chart), or fans coming through a Facebook [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2010
10 days left! (to win $100)
If you haven’t tweeted or “Like’d” a question you wrote on Parents Guild, now’s the time! There’s 10 days left to win $100 for the most publicized question on Parents Guild, and the field’s still wide open. You could win $100 to spend on anything you want or need for the house, the kids, or [...]
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Win a $100 gift card for Alice.com!
What’s this contest dealie? Together with Alice.com, we’re offering $100 in home essentials to the person who writes the most publicized question on parentsguild.com by July 4th. Okay, let’s unpack that sentence. Here’s the deal: Ask a great, fantastic, compelling question on parentsguild.com, or pick a question you’ve already written. Tweet about it and ask [...]
daily q “Are kids without siblings spoiled?”
Anonymous asked: Are kids who grow up without siblings more spoiled? Lately we’ve hung out with a lot of only childs (only children?) and they seem way more spoiled than kids with siblings. Is it just the sample we’ve spent time with? Or are they more spoiled because the parents can focus only on their [...]
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daily q “kids and sports”
Anonymous asked: In the last week, we’ve been told – 1. Our 5 year old can’t play soccer since he’s never played before and he’ll be way behind the other kids on the team. 2. Since high schools don’t have as much money, they’ve largely cut sports so the only way for kids to play [...]
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She Says: Vaccination must remain a choice, a better-informed choice
My husband has argued that the community has the right to require vaccination of all children, because leaving some children unvaccinated increases the risk of any child, vaccinated or unvaccinated, acquiring a vaccine-preventable disease. I disagree. Don’t get me wrong – I think that every child should be vaccinated. When parents make the choice not [...]
He Says: The So-Called Right Not to Vaccinate
We live in a culture where much of our political discussion takes place in terms of rights. This is particularly so here in the United States, where we have the right to free speech, the right to bear arms, the right to life vs. the right to choose, the right to a good education, even [...]
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Daily Q: How much TV for a 2.5 year old?
Steve asks: How much TV do you let your 2.5yr old watch? If he had his say, I think he’d be in there 4-5 hours a day. Of course, we don’t allow that. But, on the other hand, I’m wondering if 1 hour per day is way more than he should really be getting. [read [...]
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