Have you ever read or heard from others- usually working parents or mature adults- that, as a parent, and particularly a stay-at-home parent (and often a mom), you’re “doing the most important job“? Well, I know that deciding as a couple to raise happy, self-confident, open-minded, and healthy children, is one the most beautiful and [...]
On a higher plane, newspapers and radios would include in their regular news, the way sports results are blasted out to our ears every fifteen minutes, information that'd be relevant to parents, such as school and day care rankings, missing children info, parents having found a great way to manage their work and family life, etc… I suggest The Chronicle call this daily or weekend section Family Matters (duh)…
As a person inpired by both the North American and the French culture, I am struck by the somewhat negative connotation "Discipline" has in English- even more so in "Californian", the particularly " PC" English spoken on the West Coast.
In the French culture, it is not so negatively tainted, although this is changing. France is now seeing the results of the "No to Discipline, Yes to the Child"approach to education which is highly prevalent in California. Three-year olds are beating up on their parents over there too.. and on their babysitters, their "friends", their teachers…
