How Much is Too Much to Share About Your Family Online?
My mother says that I used to be funnier, a whole lot funnier, when it comes to what I reveal about my family online. But its hard to be funny when youve been muzzled.
Kids and the News: Parental Guidance Strongly Suggested
How many times in the past few months have you asked yourself, what is going on with the world today?
Dancing Tweens
They dont want to go to the dance. Why? Im not entirely sure but I must say Im not displeased by this development. So, you guys want to go to the dance on Friday night? I asked them the other day. How do you know about that? my 13-year-old daughter asked, raising her eyebrows suspiciously as she threw a glance over at her twin brother, wondering if I had indeed planted a spy in their middle school as Im always joking I will do.
TV Characters are Getting Into Politics
In the recent documentary Miss Representation — which criticized American culture and the media for its negative impact on women and girls — child advocate Marian Wright Edelman lamented the scarcity of American women politicians saying that, “You can’t be what you can’t see.”
Book Review: Father’s Day
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