Charm School introduction text

Here is the text, what I said in the longer Jan.27 YouTube . . . We are here tonight to prepare for MIT’s Charm School.  You may think that MIT and charm don’t quite fit in the same sentence, but as a long time employee I can tell you that some engineers and even some...

YouTube Videos incl. Question to President Obama

Take a look, there are now three videos on YouTube to give you a sense of what our program is about.  The shorter one is the question I submitted to ‘Ask Obama’ for his internet press conference January 27 (my question did not get picked, oh well) and...

WSJ Are Chinese mothers better?

Well, actually, the title of the article was ‘Why Chinese mothers are better’ and in it the author, Amy Chua, described her very rigorous and apparently very successful parenting style.  My letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal begged to differ:...

CIVICUS World Assembly in Montreal

CIVICUS World Assembly included Parents Forum . . . that is, I was there. Saturday morning’s plenary panel, moderated by Nuala McGovern of the BBC World Have Your Say, asked for contributions from the audience and I suggested:...