“Leave the house and don’t come back until dinner.” Such was the description of my daily extracurriculars as laid out by my mother. She was an incredibly loving and devoted parent. But as other parents of the time, she felt comfortable leaving her three children to their own devices while taking care of what she needed to at home. And to this day I remember those few hours between school and...
Young girls and young boys behave differently. My two decades as a math teacher, and many more years as a parent of both a boy and a girl have proven this for me definitively. Mass culture supports those differences, sometimes in negative ways. And for parents who hope to keep the world of STEM open and interesting to their young daughters, that can pose the occasional challenge, writes Dave...
Until recently, I was absolutely sure that immigration was the only source for all of my parenting stress. After all, we immigrated to a completely new world, with very limited language skills, and had to start from square one - no, well behind square one - to establish ourselves in a new and foreign life. Our children, eight and two at the time, became secondary to that goal. They were both fed,...
