January 2011
2 posts
35 Things Your Teen Won't Tell You, So I Will →
Articles and advice and info about raising kids with humor and sanity intact
I think I was Kitten Mom, but I didn have my...
Sure, my kids thought I was warm and fuzzy. But underlying it all was a stealth agenda of sorts. I knew there were certain values I wanted to emphasize: I wanted my kids to be independent but I didn’t want to raise a family of slugs (which on bad days, seemed like a definite possibility.) I wanted them to be kind and considerate. But by the same time, I encouraged healthy self-deprecation,...
May 2010
3 posts
Ellen Pober Rittberg on the NY1 Weekend Feature →
Me on NY1 May 9, 2010
The meaning of "socially skilled" in the context...
Before blogs and twitter and other forms of social media, people’s social selves unless part of the literati were considered to be how they spoke, appeared, emoted, face to face up close and personal. A person who could be charming, useful to others, kind and cheerful (or arch and subtextual) and perhaps knowledgeable would likely be deemed socially skilled by enough people to be termed...
“Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have...”
– Haim Ginott