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| Friday 27 June 2008 |
The high cost of invasive parenting advice
A striking new book argues that ‘invasive parenting’, ‘hyper parenting’ and even ‘death-grip parenting’ are turning out a nation of wimps: young adults who can’t cope without having mommy on call. Is it true – and how did it happen?
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| Tuesday 27 May 2008 |
The Great American Baby Bottle Scare
Cynical official scaremongering about a harmless plastic in baby bottles has panicked moms and dads throughout America and Canada.
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| Wednesday 30 April 2008 |
‘I’ve been labelled the world’s worst mom’
New York Sun columnist Lenore Skenazy tells spiked about the barrage of abuse she got for letting her nine-year-old ride the subway alone.
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| Monday 28 April 2008 |
Can we hector parents? Yes we can!
By making parental attitudes central to his vision for education, Barack Obama is blaming moms and dads for the US State’s school failures.
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| Monday 3 March 2008 |
Move over Soccer Mom — meet Ecomom
‘Eco-motherhood’, which encourages a morbid preoccupation with waste and guilt about having kids, won’t save the planet – but it might just drive you crazy.
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| Thursday 10 January 2008 |
A striking lack of ideas on US TV
With the schedules packed full of Pop Idol clones, ripped-off Brit-coms and half-scripted reality TV shows, it's little wonder the US public finds the screenwriters' strike a turn-off.
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| Friday 30 November 2007 |
Is stay-at-home motherhood only ‘half a life’?
Two new books implore women to ‘get to work!’ instead of staying home as dish-cleaning, hands-on mums. But it will take more than slating women’s personal choices to change women’s social roles.
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| Monday 24 September 2007 |
Kid Nation: it's not exactly William Golding
Many feared that CBS’s reality TV show would create a ‘Lord of the Flies’ situation. In fact it has an army of mollycoddling adults off camera.
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| Friday 3 August 2007 |
‘Parents take parenting far too seriously’
The widow of Dr Spock – author of the Bible of parenting guides – says he'd be horrified by today's avalanche of advice for mums and dads.
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| Friday 20 July 2007 |
‘Parents take parenting far too seriously’
The widow of Dr Benjamin Spock – author of the Bible of parenting guides: Baby and Child Care – says he would be horrified by today’s avalanche of advice for mums and dads.
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| Monday 25 June 2007 |
Bugged by the Bugaboo parents
Why are so many commentators throwing their toys out of their prams over the right-on mums and dads who live in Park Slope, Brooklyn?
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| Tuesday 29 May 2007 |
Monitoring mums and dads
A New York mum travelled thousands of miles to attend a conference in Kent, England, on today’s culture of ‘intensive parenting’. It was worth it, she reports.
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| Thursday 29 March 2007 |
Panicked parents need pacifying
How a dubious story about baby pacifiers set off an anxiety attack among New York mums.
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| Tuesday 6 February 2007 |
Fanning the child abuse controversy
Both the makers and critics of Hounddog, a film that depicts child rape, reveal America's unhealthy obsession with paedophilia.
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| Wednesday 29 November 2006 |
A photographer’s life
From the formal portrait to the casual family snapshot, Annie Leibovitz always manages to reveal her subject’s humanity.
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| Monday 23 October 2006 |
Lonely adults, lost children
Todd Field's Little Children, showing at the London Film Festival, opens a window into America's soul.
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| Monday 11 September 2006 |
Time to pack away the 9/11 shrines
A Brooklyn writer on the fake flowers, photos of the Twin Towers and bodega ‘Jesus candles’ that still pop up on street corners.
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| Thursday 27 July 2006 |
Making sense of the ‘mommy wars’
Why has greater choice over whether, when and how to have children also led to greater anxiety for women?
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| Monday 5 June 2006 |
There’s more to life than avoiding death
Philip Roth’s new novel Everyman explores what happens when we obsess too much about life’s final ‘reality check’.
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| Thursday 4 May 2006 |
After the ‘day without immigrants’
The marches and strikes by 'illegal' workers should be an inspiration to all Americans.
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