Raising Kids

As globalization is affecting the workplace, more parents are training and preparing their children to be able to compete in the global marketplace. In New York City, for instance, many of the preschoolers are being tested for gifted programs. The Department of Education is raising an awareness of the program with handbooks to the elementary schools and community groups. Once again, the programs seem to be becoming less and less ethnically diverse over the years, as white children comprise 46...Read Full Story

Today, Monkey graduates from Preschool. Today, he and his little classmates will celebrate the end of a great Preschool year, and look forward to beginning a new chapter in their lives: Kindergarten! Today Mommy has been crying. As I dropped him off for his last official day as a Preschooler, knowing that he has been practicing hard for the ceremony tonight, I became emotional. His teacher, who is wonderful, sincerely thanked me for all I had done for Monkey and his classmates this year. I...Read Full Story

To get a full picture of who I am, I must spend some time introducing you to the members of my family. SH and Princess Sprout have all been properly introduced in no given order of importance. For sure, Prince Charming Wildman sprout needs such a long name to encompass all that he is. The other day he said to SH , "Daddy, you might know this...even though you're not a mommy..." All innocent and sincere, he looked a little confused when mom fell on the ground laughing. Of course there was the...Read Full Story

Image by Gurney via Flickr A female nanny may have adverse effects on the development of your child. Especially men would develop less respect for women and consider them rather as objects of desire. That's what says psychiatrist Dennis Friedman in his book "An unsolicited donation: why we do what we do". When a boy gets at very early age 2 women in his life, his biological mother and his nanny, the natural link with his parents will be disrupted. He gets used to several women in his life...Read Full Story

Farm and ranch worksites present lethal hazards to young children. According to data from the Canadian Agricultural Injury Surveillance Program (CAISP), from 1990 to 2000 there were 109 fatal agricultural injuries to young children (aged 1 to 6 years) in Canada. Over 84 percent of the children were related to the farm owner/operators. Of those killed, 79 percent were boys. Across Canada, three causes of injury accounted for almost 79 percent of the fatal agricultural injuries to children...Read Full Story