by Eve Sullivan | Nov 26, 2011 | Blog
http://nyti.ms/uij2qL and I ask, how about improving parenting resources? High on my Thanksgiving gratitude list has been the increasing attention paid to parenting. Response to Friedman’s column was huge: online comments were cut off at 242. So I wrote a...
by Eve Sullivan | Nov 26, 2011 | Blog
And this! As a representative of the International Federation for Parenting Education, I attended a panel discussion on “Stop violence against children through positive parenting” on the occasion of the Universal Children’s Day, co-organized by the Permanent Mission...
by Eve Sullivan | Oct 26, 2011 | Blog
We need some rules for ourselves, too, as parents, and it seems that one should be: ‘Turn off the TV when children are in the room with you’. What children need from us, what anyone wants, really, more than anything, is good attention, not divided...
by Eve Sullivan | Oct 26, 2011 | Blog
First, more singing! Today’s Boston Globe ‘Music class lifts teen from life of silence’ story October 26, 2011 http://b.globe.com/taZvSJ (the link requires a subscription to read the whole article) describes the transformation of a young man into a musical ‘superstar’...
by Eve Sullivan | Oct 20, 2011 | Blog
Happy news! Matthew Martin at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) let me know that an interview he did with me in August, launched today: http://hvrd.me/r7R6vt . It is currently on the main page of the HGSE website, available through the Harvard iTunes U...
by Eve Sullivan | Oct 7, 2011 | Blog
This morning I had a very interesting conversation with one of my sons and he granted me the above mentioned ‘permission to speak’ about our discussion. We spoke about a perception we share that men – fathers – do not feel they have permission to speak...