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POPSIs Sarah Palin a Feminist? Women, including teenagers, need the knowledge and the tools to make responsible and moral decisions about such events that will certainly have such an impact on their lives. Third, anyone who believes that abstinence education can avoid these adverse effects is living in la-la land. A significant percentage of our society will continue to have sex outside of marriage. Young women still report a stigma for using contraception, and so then sometimes have unprotected sex. Contraception itself is not foolproof. Epidemic proportions of women and girls continue to suffer from rape. If 11 year old Erin Maxwell, who was recently raped and murdered in our community, had survived her rape and become pregnant, Sarah Palin would favor forcing her to carry the child to term. Forcible childbirth and coerced parenthood is bad for children, for families, for communities, and for schools.
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POPSReflections on James Dobson, child-rearing, and U.S. political discourse For some time, Dr. Dobson has been known for his insistence that a key component of parents' responsibility is the inflicting of controlled violence on their children in order to make them obedient, virtuous, and "God-fearing." Here a blogger considers links between Dobson's typical language of war, as pertinent to child-rearing, marriage and homosexuality, and foreign policy.
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POPSProposed law to ban spanking Hooray for more government control. We can't be trusted to make any decisions anymore. I welcome the big inclusive handbook for Government Sanctioned Childrearing. Do you think NY and CA will get together and propose criminalizing feeding transfats to a child? Wouldn't it be safer and smarter to just take our kids away at birth and put them in a Government Controlled Childcare Facility? Why take a risk that parents might screw something up?
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POPS10 Parenting Tips for a Successful 2007 From No. 1: Every time someone says something inflammatory- wait a beat and consider whether this is the fight you want to have. This advice is a very close cousin to the famous “Pick your battles”, but I like this phrasing, since it shows you that you have a choice in whether to engage in these fights or not.
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POPSTop 10 Parent Hacks of 2006 I really liked No. 2. Sharpie your cell phone number on your kid's belly "When we go to crazy places like amusement parks and fairs, we just use a Sharpie and write on the kids' stomachs "My mom's cell # is...." The kids are all drilled on what to do if they get lost, and we have photos of them at Disneyland and everywhere else, flashing their bellies with the emergency plan. "
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POPSThis is your brain on mercury This is excellent (and very scary). Millions of children suffered this from their childhood vaccinations in the 1990's. One is 166 children has autism now.
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POPSThe meanings of wealth in the 21st century I reckon Alvin and Heidi Toffler have done it again! This futurist supercouple launched a new book several months ago about — well, just what the description says! I haven't read this personality, but their seminal Future Shock (written in the 70s, even considering a concise description of what would later be known as Massive Multiplayer Online Gaming!) is one of my all-time faves. Worth checking out if you... use the Internet. :)
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