Parents & Kids

Tempted by the serpent, Adam and Eve’s disobedience to God’s command not to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil resulted in the serpent’s.

As a mom with two young children, I’m right in the thick of parenthood. My days are punctuated by diaper changes, bedtime routines and family dinners (with very picky eaters)—all rounded out by a full-time job.

Every parent cringes when they hear that dreaded phrase: “I’m bored!” It always strikes at the most inopportune time—while you're trying to cook dinner or finally starting to fold that mountain of laundry you've been putting off for days. 

Here is how STAT’s Morning Rounds newsletter summarized the study:

Few biological trends generate as much public anxiety as the perception that children are growing up too fast. Over the past century, the average age at which puberty begins has declined dramatically.

Desperate people will do desperate things. And parents of autistic children are desperate.

It’s December 1st, and somewhere in your house a small, felt-clad dictator with an unblinking smile and suspiciously limber limbs has just been unpacked from last year’s Christmas box.

I married my wife because I love her, and she completes me in many ways. That said, one of the benefits was that while I was average in height, she was taller, so I hoped that breeding for height might be at play.

“Such is the character of human language, that no word conveys to the mind, in all situations, one single definite idea . . . .” Chief Justice Marshall

As a parent who packed Lunchables for my son for most of the ‘90s, I find this particularly concerning.