Parenting
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New Parenting Blog Launched!
Today the Skepchick Network is proudly unrolling our new skeptical parenting blog, Grounded Parents! (Intro to the new site x-posted from GroundedParents.com) Welcome to Grounded Parents, the Skepchick Network’s new skeptical parenting blog! I’m Elyse Mofo Anders, managing editor and 6 year veteran contributor to our parent site Skepchick, and qualified to be here because somehow someone got the idea…
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Guide to Convincing Parents to Vaccinate their Children
A couple months ago I posted, here on Skepchick, the marketing research study done by Women Thinking, Inc looking into the most effective types of messaging for convincing parents to vaccinate their children. Perhaps you read it or, more likely, you downloaded it, saw it was a million pages long, skimmed over a bit of it, then moved on. Not…
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Now Hiring Parents!
Skepchick is looking for parents. Not like to fulfill that angry promise we made as kids when we were mad at our own parents. We’re looking for parents who want to blog about parenting. Next month, we will be launching our new parenting sister site, Grounded Parents, and we are looking for contributors. Are you qualified? Maybe. You don’t have…
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VIDEO: Science Resources for Children panel, #SkepchickCon
This panel is packed with awesome suggestions for science books, websites, videos, and more that you don’t need to be a parent to enjoy. Unfortunately, there was a glitch with the recording, so it starts a bit late, although I don’t think the specific resources discussion had started yet. You might want to have a document open where you can…
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Former Bullies, Take Note
A while ago, I posted a Facebook status regarding one of my childhood tormentors. She had, upon encountering some of my relatives, said that she remembered me and asked that they say hi to me from her. I had a little vent but didn’t say that I hated her, believed her to be a bad person, or anything like that.…
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A Sandbox of Scientist Paper Dolls
ORIGINALLY POSTED BY BonnieBeth on Mad Art Lab. Did you miss SkepchickCON? Wish you could have been there with us? We wish you could have been there too! So we’ve brought a little piece of SkepchickCON back home to you: our Geek Art workshop, full of scientist paper dolls. The whole set is here, and we’re already plotting to make…
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It’s Thursday. Do You Know the Texture of Your Cervical Mucus?
Have you ever wanted to have a baby, but weren’t quite sure how? Never fear, Max Levchin, cofounder of PayPal and Slide, is using his expertise in processing payments and sharing photos to… climb inside your uterus. That’s right, a man best known for financial transactions and slick slideshows is ready to tell you when it’s time to get busy…
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Tiger Moms: Harsh Parenting, Harsh Outcomes
Trigger Warning for Suicide, Self-Harm, and Depression Remember Amy Chua, the woman who wrote The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother but ended up singing The Siren Song of the Back-Pedaler? Over two years after the publishing of her memoir and the explosion surrounding it, her name is passing lips again thanks to Slate reporting on pertinent research regarding Asian-American parenting…
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