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Wait, is it okay not to go home for the Holidays?
Kids these days are choosing to stay home rather than see their parents or their other family members for the holidays. I found it a bit absurd and tried to explain that it is important to bond with family, because you don’t know when you'll see them again, until someone called me out for not having visited my family in over 20 years.
By stephanie borges25 days ago in Families
What Fathers Uniquely Provide
The Error of Treating Parenting Roles as Functionally Identical Modern parenting theory often begins with the assumption that mothers and fathers are largely interchangeable, differing only in style or temperament. From this view, any deficits in one parent can be compensated for by the other through increased emotional effort, sensitivity, or presence. Parenting becomes a question of intention and quantity rather than function and role. This assumption is appealing because it aligns with cultural preferences for symmetry and fairness, but it collapses under closer examination of developmental outcomes.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast26 days ago in Families
"These Children Come Here to Grow Us Up"
I wrote the beginning of this in 2023. When I put my youngest son on the special education preschool bus last school year, I smiled and waved at a tiny girl usually wearing pink. She sometimes returned that smile and said "hi". Later, I helped in my autistic son's classroom and discovered other funny things about the little girl: she always lost her shoes (or took them off), she loved dumping everything out, and she could be stubborn and yell "no!" when you asked her to put it away.
By Eileen Davis27 days ago in Families
When Desire Replaces Compassion
When the river first arrived in Devpur, it was not called a miracle. It was simply water, flowing where water always had. It curved around the village like a patient guardian, feeding fields, filling wells, and cooling tired feet at dusk. Children learned to swim in it before they learned to write their names. Elders sat by its banks every evening, arguing about harvests and memories with equal seriousness. No one thought to own it. No one thought to sell it.
By Ibrahim Shah 28 days ago in Families
5 Concepts of Consent To Teach Your Toddlers
My name is Mom - and I am a sexual assault survivor. My first experience with sexual assault happened when I was young enough to have trouble remembering exactly what happened. I remember being under the blankets. I remember the hand. I remember trying to wriggle free, only for that hand to squeeze my leg so hard that it felt like it would break.
By Hope Martin29 days ago in Families
