School of Smock
by Jessica Smock, Ed.D.
Marissa Mayer is not the most popular person in the parenting blog universe right now. Her decision to ban telecommuting at Yahoo! has provoked outrage from nearly all quarters. And as I write …
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Before my son was born, I had a lot of plans for how I was going to parent. I read lots of books and made assessments based on what I observed from my friends' parenting challenges. I thought that I …
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Do you think that being called an introvert is a good thing or a characteristic about which to be ashamed? I have a piece on a website that I love called Role/Reboot: Make Sense of Men and Women. …
This journey of starting a blog has been more rewarding than I thought possible. It's been rewarding intellectually and personally. And the journey has barely started. I want to continue the …
My son had a horrible virus last week. I have no idea what it was. Maybe the flu. But as I was sitting in the rocking chair with him in his room for hours every day and night, I had a lot of time …
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The astounding increase in the number of "older" parents -- those in their late thirties, forties, and beyond -- has been called one of the greatest "natural experiments" of our time. There's been …
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