adhd
by Meghan Housley
What the cool parents are reading today: 1. Does What to Expect When You’re Expecting come off as an uber chick flick? Billboards are really highlighting the dad group in the movie, The Dudes, in order to make the dads seem like cool, fun, relatable people, you know, like how women feel about Sandra Bullock… Read More »
10:39am May 4, 2012
by Meghan Housley
What we’re reading today: 1. The number of kids with ADHD in the U.S has just about doubled since 2000. Doubled. Sometimes, when diagnoses goes up, it might just mean that we’re better about identifying things, or maybe over-diagnosing things, but wasn’t the over-medicating heyday more like 2000? 2. There’s a $180, 000 nanny. Um,… Read More »
11:06am March 20, 2012
by Meghan Housley
What we’re reading today: 1. Former congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford’s husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, is writing a children’s book. Wait, it gets better! The book will be called Mousetronaut: A Partially True Story. 2. For young moms under 30, most babies are born outside of marriage. But, are they all single moms, or are they babies… Read More »
12:14pm February 21, 2012
by Meghan Housley
What we’re reading today: 1. Parents of kids with behavioural or learning issues really, really don’t need you diagnosing their kids. 2. Looking for an old Biblical name for your kid but want something a little more unique? Here are 12 underused names for boys. (Though we’d still stay away from the ones with such… Read More »
12:19pm January 26, 2012
by Meghan Housley
What we’re reading today: 1. Oh Tina Fey. We feel you. Fey was watching 30 Rock with 6-year-old daughter Alice when there was a reference to an erection under someone’s clothes. Alice asked what an erection was and Fey picked the most innocuous explanation she could. “An erection is a building.” But Alice knew that… Read More »
12:15pm January 12, 2012
by Meghan Housley
What we’re reading today: 1. What causes ADHD in kids? Could poverty and diabetes during pregnancy have anything to do with it? 2. A healthy living campaign in Georgia is fat-shaming kids. Somehow we think the childhood obesity crisis won’t be fixed by making kids feel bad. 3. The whole economic crisis thing just got… Read More »
11:57am January 4, 2012
by Meghan Housley
What we’re reading today: 1. If all small kids have short attention spans, how does a person go about diagnosing ADHD in a toddler? They’re extra squirmy and non-sharing, and it’s hindering their development. 2. “I went clubbing with my son.” Pretty sure we’ve seen this already on Keeping Up With the Kardashians when Rob… Read More »
11:44am October 18, 2011
by Meghan Housley
What we’re reading today: 1. New Jersey is proposing a law that would make it illegal to photograph or film kids. The idea is to catch the creepy perverts, but what about event photographers or capturing your kid among their friends? 2. What three words describe your parenting philosophy? Have you ever taken any parenting… Read More »
10:57am May 10, 2011