by Eve Sullivan | Mar 26, 2014 | Blog
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...
by Eve Sullivan | Jan 2, 2014 | Blog
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...
by Eve Sullivan | Dec 12, 2013 | Blog
Good news twice! The New Yorker Dec.16 included my comments on the sad story (in the Dec.2 issue of the magazine) by Rachel Aviv who wrote about an immigrant mother losing custody of her son over a six-year period, starting when the boy was three. The Cambridge...
by Eve Sullivan | Dec 11, 2013 | Blog
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...
by Eve Sullivan | Nov 14, 2013 | Blog
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...
by Eve Sullivan | Jun 23, 2013 | Blog
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...