Finally facing the music about the test’s lack of efficacy, the rollout of a new Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) says that the College Board has […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB3xM93rXbY Did you buy your mom a Mothers’ Day card yet? It’s probably been on your mind since Monday when American Greeting dropped this heavy-handed […]
I just had my baby and thankfully, all is going well. He’s thriving and I am having a much better post-partum experience this time than […]
World War II fascinates my 10-year-old son Michael, so I rented the movie Pearl Harbor from Verizon. I forgot what a horrible movie it is […]
Temple University Hospital announced today that it is establishing the city’s first public cord-blood donation program to collect stem cell-rich blood from discarded umbilical cords. […]
The Thursday Styles section of the New York Times last week contained a big bloomingarticle on the fashion trend known as “normcore,” which the article […]
Parents in Cheltenham have started a Facebook page — always the forefront of 2014-style activism — asking that the school open later in the morning, KYW […]
Linguist/philosopher and Philly native son Noam Chomsky once postulated that the current era of human history might “provide an answer to the question of whether […]
Last week, a video of a mother ignoring her child on SEPTA made the Internet rounds, and police said Philadelphia’s Department of Human Services was […]
Last fall, 20 hours after our firstborn came home from the hospital, our little family welcomed its first visitor: my lactation consultant. She glided in, […]
Slate has an interesting piece this week about a new study which found that the benefits of breastfeeding may have been overblown—drastically.
A pair of recently concluded long-term studies may shine some light on the causes of ADHD as well as other mental illnesses including bipolar disorder, […]
We know, we know: Your baby is the smartest baby ever. You made sure of that when you shelled out big bucks for a program […]
Amy Chua is the self-proclaimed “Tiger Mom” who came into the collective consciousness in 2011 when the Wall Street Journal published an excerpt of her […]
Our boys ran in circles at first, so overwhelmed by their options they couldn’t settle in and play with any single toy till they inventoried […]
