Joanne Jacobs
The power of struggle
Zachary Wright “had to drag my son kicking and screaming into kindergarten.” He remembered his own “struggles with anxiety, depression...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 7, 20181 min read
The babysitter is a spycam
spycam is the babysitter, reports Ronda Kaysen in the New York Times. Working parents can use an array of security devices to keep tabs...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 5, 20182 min read
Spoiled children
A college education isn’t intended to make people think any more, write Greg Lukianoff, a First Amendent specialist, and Jonathan Haidt,...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 18, 20181 min read
Questions to ask your child’s teacher
Rick Hess suggests 10 questions to ask your child’s teacher on Forbes. I like: What’s the one paper, project, or unit that I should...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 20, 20181 min read
Oh, theyby
There has to be a simpler way of avoiding gender stereotypes than refusing to admit that your twins are boys, girls or one of each....
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 29, 20181 min read
When tiger kids become parents
The son of tiger parents, lawyer Ryan Park wants to raise his daughters to be “happy, confident, and kind,” he writes in the New York...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 9, 20182 min read
Raising self-regulating kids
Children — and their parents and teachers face a “crisis of self-regulation,” argues Katherine Reynolds Lewis in The Good News About Bad...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 6, 20183 min read
Does babytalk matter? Word gap wrangle
By the age of three, children growing up in poverty hear 30 million fewer words than the children of educated parents, concluded a study...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 2, 20182 min read
Parenting: Are you a carpenter or a gardener?
Gopnik, a psychology and philosophy professor at Berkeley, wants parents to let their children grow freely without too much worry about...
Joanne Jacobs
May 12, 20181 min read
Parents spend more time with kids
My mother, my sister and me (the fat baby) in 1952. Parents — especially educated parents — spend a lot more time caring for their...
Joanne Jacobs
May 11, 20181 min read
‘Baby, may I change your diaper?’
Deanne Carson An Aussie sex education expert says parents should ask for permission to change a child’s diaper, reports Kashmira Gander...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 12, 20181 min read
Parents, stop coddling your kids
Students and parents disrespect teachers, complained Julie Marburger in a Facebook post that went viral. She teaches sixth grade in a...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 6, 20182 min read
. . . and ‘theyby’ makes three
New York magazine features parents who are raising “theybys” — children whose biological sex is kept a mystery, so they can avoid...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 26, 20181 min read
Help parents help kids before they start school
Education reformers are working hard to “rescue” children who arrive at school without the language skills, knowledge and emotional...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 24, 20181 min read
Having the ‘social media talk’ with a 7-year-old
When is a child ready for social media asks Judi Ketteler in the New York Times. Her 9-year-old son is showing off his flips on...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 23, 20183 min read
Screen waivers
Upper-middle-class parents are worried about screen time, writes Michael J. Petrilli. They worry about attention deficit disorder,...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 17, 20182 min read
Naked tykes by the fire pit
Sara Zaske moved to Germany with a four-year-old daughter, then gave birth to a son. In Achtung Baby she praises “the German art of...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 1, 20182 min read
‘Nudging’ aims to change habits
Text-messaged “nudges” can help parents support their children’s learning, writes Daisy Yuhas, citing research at Stanford’s Center for...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 12, 20182 min read
Your baby is not Einstein
A Colorado mother shot the first video for her child in 1996. “Five years later, she sold the company to Disney for a reported $25...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 19, 20171 min read
Don’t oaf-rock your kids
fabulous, long-forgotten word: Oaf-rocked. In a story on Paul Anthony Jones’ book, The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities, the BBC reports...
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