Bob CollinsWBUR (Boston) blogger Lindsay Goodwin is probably going to cause a dust-up in Puritan country (and elsewhere) with her blog post this morning on how to keep your kids from swearing in public. Let them swear around the house, she says. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Parenthood
If you spend any time at all on social networks, you’ve probably run across this ad in which a fake job was advertised to see who would show up to do it. Read more →
The rescue of a couple at sea with their two young children has led to another storm : criticism that they had no business putting their children at risk. Read more →
Dick and Rick Hoyt will run their final Boston Marathon together in two weeks, ending one of the annual inspirational stories we still have in sports.
They never made it to the finish line last year; the bombs went off before they got there.
They’ll run this year to honor the victims of last year’s terrorist attack.
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A professional baseball player for the New York Mets — insert obvious New York Mets joke here — missed opening day this week because his wife had a baby.
Honk if you don’t see what’s coming next. Hint: It involves only men and sports talk radio. Read more →
A Winnipeg couple will not be able to see their Pee Wee hockey-playing son on the ice again for three years because of a fight the couple had with coaches at a tournament in West Fargo. Read more →
And now this antidote for last week’s story about college sports players who skated through high school thanks to educators who were more than willing to pass illiterate students and some parents who didn’t seem to care. Read more →
Writer Theodore Ross got his first crack at parenting the same way most fathers do these days: During a two-week parental leave. His wife, using maternal leave, got 90 days.
Writing on Al Jazeera today, Ross says fathers deserve the same opportunity to bond with their children that mothers get and America’s workplaces should extend paid leave. Read more →
Superior Court Judge Sohail Mohammed said all patients enjoy strong privacy protections that give them the sole authority to decide who is at their bedside. Read more →
Paxton Harvieux, Michael Goodgame and James Adams were killed last Friday after their SUV slid into the path of a truck. They were on their way to a Frisbee tournament.
Their deaths have struck the soul of parents everywhere, who dread the thought of the late-night call from a police department far away. Read more →
They’re so cute when their small. Then they hit the teenage years, tell you how much they hate you and how they wish they’d never been born, they go into their room for a few years and come out and tell you what college they want you to pay for.
That’s the typical cycle of parenthood life. Everybody gets over it. Eventually. Read more →
It’s Girl Scout cookie time but the kids aren’t selling anything. Mom and Dad are. Read more →
h/t: NBC The USA doesn’t have the market cornered on pushy, obnoxious sports parents. Norwegian Martin Johnsrud Sundby tried his best at Friday’s 15k classic in Sochi, NBC reports. But it wasn’t good enough. Given the opportunity to offer her progeny a little motherly comfort, his mother spit on the Olympic spirit instead. “You’re the Read more →
If you race the Arrowhead 135, you’re in for trouble; Who is Cory Remsburg; Minnesota’s not-so-super transportation; the Napkin Notes Dad; and farewell, comma! Read more →
Today’s viral video on the Intertubes is tonic for people who long for more parent involvement in the education of children. Read more →