These are amazing, both the tips and the photos. Lilia Schwartz of Babymoon Photography, has given us permission to reprint the following tips from her blog. We’re taking notes. Boy, is she right about light… So, it has come to my attention that not every parent in the world is (or lives with) a professional child [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Why our schools suck: Waiting for Superman movie
Provocative new documentary distills a few very-wrong, very-fixable things about our school system: 1) pay great teachers well, 2) fire bad ones, 3) don’t settle for less. For more about this upcoming documentary, “Waiting for Superman“, see Sarah Lacy’s (no relation) post on TechCrunch. The movie is opening in selected cities this week. (We’ll be [...]
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Redesign, part III: New Logo!
We’re exceedingly happy to announce our new logo direction… to be followed shortly by a new webpage design for both the Parents Guild site and this blog. As you may recall, we’ve been working with Todd Linkner on design. We iterated with your feedback. And iterated again. And <drumroll please> here… we… go: Thoughts? (If [...]
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George Carlin “Over Parenting”
Some choice quotes here, and good insights too. Who knew Carlin was a parenting genius? :)
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Parenting, and the Meaning of Life
A response to Lisa Belkin’s provocative New York Times Magazine piece: Living to be a Parent. Belkin cites a psychologist, Douglas T. Kenrick at Arizona State University who is undertaking to update Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs pyramid. Read Belkin’s full article, it’s not long. The upshot is that Kenrick is apparently “redefining ‘self-actualization’ as an [...]
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Ethics on the Internet
Maybe it’s because it’s the Jewish new year (that link notwithstanding) a time for reflection. Maybe it’s because of the stuff we’ve been reading online. Whatever it is, I find myself noodling on ethical questions today. Questions like: Is it ethical for WebMD and Babble.com to have formula makers sponsor their breastfeeding content? I posted [...]
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Reflections of Motherhood: Collected wisdom for new moms
(via Annie at PhD in Parenting) Alison from Nummies asked moms if they could go back to right before they had their first child, what would they tell themselves. This is what they “said.” Reposting it here because it hits on many of the things I would tell myself. It’s tempting to say more, but [...]
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Growing Child – Needed: The support of others
One of our favorite writers offers a note on “anti-child” sentiments on planes and elsewhere and a thought on combating them…. in particular, I love this line: “The very unpredictability of small children reminds me of my puppy… Why should parents and kids not be allowed the same latitude of tolerance and distance?” “Needed: The [...]
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