Bookworm on Feb 02 2008 | Filed under: Children, Parenting
A few months ago, I did a post about out-of-control children who seemed to be the product, not of biological pathology, but of boundary-free parenting. A couple of weeks ago, I did a post about parents who were afraid to exert control over their children because of their fear of Child Protective Services. And last [...]
Bookworm on Jan 28 2008 | Filed under: Parenting
Its official name is Child Protective Services (and most parents recognize its acronym, “CPS”), but I have to think that my post title more accurately describes it, especially when it’s aided by busy-bodies — people who don’t really want to help a situation, but who do want to cause a little excitement in their lives. [...]
Bookworm on Nov 08 2007 | Filed under: Children, Parenting
One of Hitler’s most evilly inspired ideas was to go after the young people, and turn them into spies in their own parents’ homes. It’s so much easier to grab children’s minds, and parents never assume that, not only are their children watching them, they can be co-opted, innocently, into ratting them out to people [...]
Bookworm on Nov 07 2007 | Filed under: Children, Education, Parenting
I’m still irked about the middle school in Portland, Maine that had the bright idea to bypass parents and give birth control pills to little girls. My irritation goes beyond the fact that the school district is using a very small number of pregnancies and bad situations to usurp parents’ control over and relationship [...]
Bookworm on Nov 02 2007 | Filed under: Children, Health, Parenting
I’m about to write something provocative, so feel free to beat me up on it, provided that you do so politely. It’s about the increasing prevalence of Asbergers diagnoses amongst children. Asbergers is a rather amorphous condition, although it’s considered to be part of the Autism spectrum. Here’s the definition from one [...]
Bookworm on Oct 14 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Children, Parenting
I used to have the worst children in the world. Truly, I did. And I knew that they were the worst children in the world because the evidence came out of my own mouth. I had to criticize them constantly because of the way they ignored instructions, the way they broke rules, [...]
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