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Should Parents Raise Their Own Children?

April 16th, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor This is, I realize, a rather heretical question to ask given the size of the “parent-industrial complex,” the fact that the word parent has morphed from being a noun (i.e., what someone is) into a verb (i.e., what someone does), and the recent proliferation of “I am a better parent than [...]

Articles written by Dr. Jim Taylor
Tags: children, coaches, kids, parenting, parents, raising, teachers
Categories: Education, Life, Science | Comments (1) | Home

Just Following Orders

April 15th, 2011

By Dan Miller

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: children, grope, intrusive, kids, pat-down, screening, security, terrorist, TSA
Categories: Life, News, Politics | Comments (2) | Home

Corporal Punishment in Schools

February 14th, 2011

By Tom Carter Interesting article in the Washington Post today about corporal punishment in schools — teachers or principals hitting kids as punishment for misbehaving.  I have to admit that it has been many years since I even thought about it.  I guess I assumed that in today’s namby-pamby world in which the education of [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Congress, corporal punishment, kids, paddling, race, satire, states, students
Categories: Education, Life | Comments (4) | Home

What to Get My Kids for Christmas

December 21st, 2010

By Dr. Jim Taylor I’ve been having another one of those “end  of civilization as we know it” moments lately. It started when my wife and I began Christmas shopping for our daughters and were overwhelmed by the seemingly unending universe of toys from which to choose (don’t even get me started on how the [...]

Articles written by Dr. Jim Taylor
Tags: Christmas, dolls, electronics, inappropriate, kids, presents, sexualized, toys
Categories: Economics, Humor, Life | Comments (1) | Home

Parenting: Q & A with Dr. Jim

November 18th, 2010

By Dr. Jim Taylor Not long ago, I was posed four questions by a parenting magazine that I thought readers of Kids & Culture Alert! would find interesting. I’m afraid that I’ve turned my kids into “reward junkies” by praising, rewarding, and buying them gift constantly. I thought this would show them how much I [...]

Articles written by Dr. Jim Taylor
Tags: appearance, culture, dress, gifted, kids, praise, reward, spoiled, sports
Categories: Education, Life, Science | Comments (17) | Home

iPhone: The Latest in Parental Expediency

July 12th, 2010

By Dr. Jim Taylor Parents now have more ways than ever to keep their kids distracted, entertained, and otherwise occupied, in other words, out of their hair. Parental expediency has truly reached new heights thanks to the iPhone and its army of clever app developers. Expediency is one of the most dangerous words in parenting. [...]

Articles written by Dr. Jim Taylor
Tags: apps, distraction, expediency, iPhone, kids, parenting, technology
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Taking Your Kids to Work

March 5th, 2010

By Tom Carter Anyone who has watched or read the news in recent days knows about the kerfuffle over a tower controller at JFK International Airport taking his kids to work recently.  Problem is, he let both kids talk on the radio to airline pilots, relaying directions and clearances.  The reporting on this incident is, [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: airport, controllers, JFK, kids, safety
Categories: Life, Media, News | Comments (0) | Home

So Long, Old Pal

October 24th, 2009

Soupy Sales (Jan 8, 1926 – Oct 22, 2009) was a local market celebrity on WXYZ television in Detroit back in the fifties and sixties. His first program was a thirty-minute spot at mid-day, and every kid from Detroit to Flint had lunch with Soupy. He’d show up on the old black and white Philco [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: entertainment, kids, Soupy Sales, TV shows
Categories: Arts, History, Life, News | Comments (3) | Home

Camp Twitch and Shout

July 27th, 2009

Imagine being a kid with Tourette syndrome; the muscles in your body and your face seem to have minds of their own, you make noises — sometimes alarmingly loud noises — that you do not intend to make. Perhaps worse than the disease you feel alone; people are scared of you because they don’t understand Tourettes; the adults want to shield their children from you and most of the other kids think you’re weird and funny and, in the school yard, they gather around you and laugh at you and imitate your tics.

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: kids, Tourette syndrome
Categories: Life, News | Comments (3) | Home

Games We Played

July 10th, 2009

I spend a great deal of time reliving my youth. Mostly wishing I could go back. Sure, there were things I’d change if offered the opportunity. One thing’s for sure, I’d have damn sure stashed back more money and in safer places.  Marbles; it was marbles that got me thinking about bygone days. The marble games [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: games, kids
Categories: History, Life | Comments (3) | Home

Aunt Mertie’s Moonshiners

June 16th, 2009

Carbon Hill, Alabama, 1951, population about 3000, mostly coal miners and farmers. Right smack dab in the middle of the Bible belt, a fact that at times created some unique problems. Southern folks worked hard and most the time for six-day weeks. Sunday was the Lord’s day, period. Friday and Saturday nights, on the other hand, were [...]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: kids, moonshine
Categories: Humor, Life | Comments (2) | Home

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