Joanne Jacobs
Mom won’t be charged for recording device
Criminal charges have been dropped against a mother who sent her child to school with a recording device to document bullying, reports...
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Joanne Jacobs
Dec 3, 20171 min read
Iceland’s clean teens
Iceland’s teens are much less likely to get drunk, use drugs or smoke since the country focused on the problem in 1998, reports BBC News....
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 17, 20172 min read
Parents don’t see value of kids’ play
Parents value structured activities over free play, according to a Gallup survey, “despite research associating unstructured, child-led...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 3, 20171 min read
When homework goes wrong
When homework goes wrong, parents should remember three rules, writes K.J. Dell’Antonia in Medium. 1. It’s not yours. 2. What kids learn...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 3, 20171 min read
Don’t raise your kids to be snowflakes
Mamas, don’t raise your kids to be snowflakes, says social psychologist Jonathan Haidt in a Spiked interview. Over-protective parents are...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 2, 20172 min read
Too young for a smartphone?
The average child gets his or her first smartphone at age 10, but some parents are pledging to keep their kids smartphone-free till...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 7, 20171 min read
LEGO rules
You Are Neither Old Enough — Nor Young Enough — to Enter LEGOLAND Alone, writes Lenore Skenazy on Free Range Kids. She...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 4, 20172 min read
Don’t have fun, kids! It’s dangerous
Summer is the “time to dig in the sand, gulp from the hose, play at the park, and leap with joy … unless you’re a kid,” wrote Lenore...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 21, 20172 min read
Stress can make kids smarter (in some ways)
Unstable parenting, poverty, a violent environment and other “adverse childhood experiences” contribute to “toxic stress” that impairs...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 4, 20172 min read
Decoding the world, through Disney movies
Life, Animated didn’t win the Oscar for best documentary (blame O.J. Simpson), but the movie about Disney and autism is well worth...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 18, 20171 min read
Bringing preschool home
By the first day of kindergarten, children with educated, affluent parents are far readier for school success than children from...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 14, 20171 min read
Adios to the ‘immigrant paradox’
It’s called the “immigrant paradox.” Immigrants’ children do better in school and behave better than classmates from native-born families...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 2, 20171 min read
Day-care center to parents: ‘Get off your phone!!’
A Texas day-care center’s message to parents — “GET OFF YOUR PHONE!!” — has gone viral, reports Fox News. Juliana Farris Mazurkewicz was...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 28, 20171 min read
Parenting as a competitive sport
In Lucinda Rosenfeld’s Class, which satirizes privileged, perfectionist Brooklynites, “parent is both a verb and a competitive sport,”...
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