Geeky Mom took the words right out of my mouth. I hope you’ll read her well-thought out comments on Ms. Hishnam’s op-ed piece. I certainly could not have said it better myself.
Category: care
The Mommy Wars
As I am still in the middle of my review of Hyper-Parenting (on another blog…please email me if you are interested), I probably won’t get to my review of the Truth Behind the Mommy Wars by Miriam Peskowitz until next week. By then, the Washington Post article “Unleashing the Wrath of Stay-at-Home Moms” may no…
Are You a Hyper-Parent? Am I?
I’ve just finished reading Hyper-parenting: Are You Hurting Your Child by Trying Too Hard? by Alvin Rosenfeld, MD, and Nicole Wise. Hyper-parenting includes “overscheduling” and “over enriching” our children, forcing us as parents to give up what is meaningful to us (other than our kids’ lives). The authors make the point that in a typical…