One thing is certain, kids aren’t born hateful. Prejudices are learned. Hatred and intolerance can be learned, but so too can sensitivity, understanding, empathy, and tolerance. If today’s children are to have any chance of living harmoniously in this multiethnic world, it is critical that parents nurture it. REALITY CHECK: Did you know that today’s [...]

A guest post by Edward F. Dragon, Ed.D. Author of The Bully Action Guide: How to Help Your Child and Get Your School to Listen Sexual Harassment: Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature that tends to create a hostile or offensive work environment. The [...]

Michele Borba, Ed.D. REALITY CHECK  Reports say that Attention Deficit Disorder (or ADD) affects up to nine[ii] percent of school-age children, but even then the medical field fears that only half of those have been properly diagnosed. Parents currently spend[i] over one billion three hundred million each year on buying one of the three leading [...]

Parenting tips for our left-handed children and some surprising research on how they turn out Do Lefties Have the Upper Hand? I admit I’m always glued to the news. But this week I tuned into an unexpected political revelation. I caught it the moment President Obama was signing a bill. It wasn’t what he signed, but [...]

Michele Borba REALITY CHECK: Murray A. Straus,[i] the Family Research Lab at the University of New Hampshire, found that half of parents surveyed had screamed, yelled, or shouted at their infants. By the time a kid reaches seven years of age, 98 percent of parents admit to verbally lashing at their kids. These are tough [...]