(2009/07/06)
Q: My daughter has an individual educational plan because she has a learning disability and needs support services to be more successful in her classes. The school district has different diplomas, and because of some of her credits being earned through the special education department they have her in a different diploma from the general population. I don't want her future options to be limited, and many people have told me her options will be limited with this diploma.
(2009/07/06)
Q: Today I was thinking about a plan that I had when I was much younger that involved becoming a parent and raising a family. You know, one of those daydreaming moments when you envision your future and what you want it to look like. Well, my daydream and my reality are not matching, and I need some advice.
(2009/07/06)
Q: You’ve probably heard this comment a million times but I am going to kill my son if he doesn’t start cleaning his room. Seriously, I won’t hurt him but I can’t stand the mess. I have grounded him, threatened him, taken his cell phone, you name it, and nothing I do makes a difference.
(2009/07/06)
As my regular readers already know, I am not a fan of rewards given for behaving properly. First, any improvement in behavior that comes about as a result of reward is almost always short-lived. Second, rewards teach children how to be manipulative, to withhold proper behavior until an adult makes a sufficiently attractive offer, as in “If you will stop that and behave yourself the rest of this shopping trip, I’ll buy you that toy you want.” In effect, rewards are bribes, but one must be careful to distinguish between giving a reward and giving positive feedback. The latter is essential to helping a child “fine tune” his or her behavior.
(2009/07/06)
Here’s more material that just arrived in the mailroom at the top-secret underground location of the Rosemond One-World Flawless Parenting Headquarters.
(2009/06/27)
The Legislature and governor of New Jersey have lost their collective common sense, which is to say they are politicians.
(2009/06/20)
Q: My daughter has an individual educational plan because she has a learning disability and needs support services to be more successful in her classes. The school district has different diplomas, and because of some of her credits being earned through the special education department they have her in a different diploma from the general population. I don’t want her future options to be limited, and many people have told me her options will be limited with this diploma.
(2009/06/20)
Some items that recently arrived at the blast-proof underground mailroom at Rosemond World Headquarters:
(2009/06/13)
Q: My husband’s mother died two months ago, and it was the first significant loss for our children. Our 13-year-old daughter was very close to her grandma and is still having trouble.
(2009/06/13)
The first Question of the Week is “Why at dinnertime should children be served what everyone else in the family is served?”
(2009/06/06)
My recent series, “I’m ready for the 1960s to be over and done with,” set off nervequakes in some readers.
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