Overdue for an update – exciting stuff coming up

Seriously, I should post more often. Tomorrow (Thursday March 27, 2014) there is a meeting of the UN NGO Committee on the Family in New York, at 12:30 in the Church Center. The topic is “Military Parents and the Family: An Exploration of Paths to Strengthen the...

A New Year’s Day telephone call

Last evening, back from a movie, I was sitting at the kitchen table enjoying a cup of tea. When the phone rang I thought it might be one of my sons, but it was another mother’s child. The young lady, calling from Georgia (the state, not the country), said...

Bad news / good news / bad news on youth mental health

The first slice of bad news in this sandwich is a report in the Boston GLOBE magazine on Monday headlined “Rate of children getting mental health care rises”. Lara Salah reported research (from JAMA Psychiatry Nov.27) showing that “the rate at which...

Struggling appropriately

That is the phrase I sometimes found myself using when people asked me about my kids, especially when they were teenagers, and it is what I hope I am doing now! Two months of home renovations consumed my summer and some tasks remain, painting, wallpaper still to go...

Can we say the p-word: parents?

This counts as a base hit for the parenting education team, I think! I got a letter in the Boston Globe Ideas section today June 23, 2013 Ideas section, p. K6 OpinionExtra / Sunday Forum.  The link: http://b.globe.com/123GOTv  and the text: In discussing the problem...