Topic: Parenting
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Eight states charging hard against abortion
This year, numerous governors are promoting new limits on abortion – or have already signed legislation. Here’s a rundown:
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The 20 best TV sitcoms of all time – readers' choice
What did Monitor readers choose as the best sitcom in the history of television?
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'The Honest Toddler': 7 insights into what your child is really thinking
Broken crackers? Refusal to play cars at 3 a.m.? Bunmi Laditan reveals some of the things your child finds frustrating.
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10 best books of June, according to The Christian Science Monitor
Here are the 10 June books to which the Monitor's book reviewers gave their most enthusiastic thumbs-up.
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'Someone Could Get Hurt': 5 stories from the front lines of parenting
In 'Someone Could Get Hurt,' Drew Magary shares stories from his time as a dad.
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Modern Parenthood Ground control to undergrad: Prepping your college student for home reentry
Your college student is coming home. Reentering the atmosphere of their childhood will be bumpy, but a few preparations can ensure as safe a landing as possible.
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Allen Iverson abducted his children, says mom, a rising trend (+video)
Allen Iverson abducted his five children, says his ex-wife in a court filing. The FBI says the Allen Iverson case is not an isolated one: Parental abductions have risen sharply in the past two years.
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A class for teenage moms taught by a teenage mom: 'I did it, and you can do it'
Teenage moms, beset with low graduation rates and paltry earnings, tend to give birth to babies with troubles of their own. Teenage moms, officials say, do not understand the consequences of lifestyle decisions on their newborns. Enter Kathy Newport, educator.
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School prayer: After-school Good News Club is 'Sunday school on steroids'
The school prayer ban is 50 years old this month. Yet there's more religion on campus than ever. The after-school Good News Club, for example, brings the fourth R – religion – that follows a day of reading, writing, and arithmetic at 3,200 public schools.
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Father's Day: Most men aspire to be dads
In an Associated Press poll, 69 percent of dads surveyed said a long-standing desire to have children was important in their decision to have kids. Eight in 10 men said they have always wanted to be fathers.
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Modern Parenthood 'You're not special' graduation speech: David McCullough spins it into a book
When his 'You're not special' Wellesley High School graduation speech went viral last year, book agents came calling. Now you can look for a book on the same theme tweaking the modern parenting culture of praise in which, he says, 'if everyone is special, then no one is.'
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The Monitor's View Father's Day: a role for everyone
Father’s Day recognizes the importance of being a dad. Today 1 out of 3 children lives in a home with no father present on a regular basis. But anyone can lend a hand to kids without a dad in their lives.
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Opinion Father's Day: Why a 'superhero' father wants to join the Mothers Association
Where are the fathers? In my neighborhood, the Mothers Association gets things done. Too many men want to avoid the thankless tasks that women have performed for hundreds of patriarchal years. They're also missing out on the beautiful intimate mundanity of nurturing a human being.
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Eight states charging hard against abortion
This year, numerous governors are promoting new limits on abortion – or have already signed legislation. Here’s a rundown:
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Becoming a father
A Christian Science perspective: In celebrating Father's Day, a dad reflects on his 'instant fatherhood' and the joy that came with it.
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Dads as equal partners is nothing unusual to parents today
More fathers are doing more around the house and view being a dad as an important part of their identity, whether they're blogging about being a parent or discussing baby food recipes with fellow fathers.
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Nonprofit offers advice, resources for single mothers worldwide
The nonprofit organization SMOOTH, or 'Single Mothers Overcoming Our True Hurt,' was founded by single mother Betty Mayfield, who wrote a book about the struggles she experienced raising her son by herself.
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The Simple Dollar Is a second income worth it?
Usually, people assume that having more money is better, but that's not always the case, Hamm says. When one or both jobs require a commute, child care is eating up income, or you're eating out more because nobody is home to cook, it might be worth considering having one parent stay home.
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Children with working mothers do just as well in school as those with stay-at-home moms, says study
Children whose mothers work outside the home are no more likely to do poorly in school or misbehave, according to a new study.
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Soccer, Boy Scouts and other expenses mean parents are spending more money on their children, says study
Activities like drum lessons and extras like graduation gifts all contribute to the fact that the amount of money parents spend on their children has steadily risen since the 1970s, says a new study.
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Modern Parenthood My teenage daughter refused to learn to drive, and she's not alone
The driver's license is an American rite of passage for 16-year olds, but not my daughter. She wanted nothing to do with a car at that age, and statistics show others at that age feel the same.
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The 20 best TV sitcoms of all time – readers' choice
What did Monitor readers choose as the best sitcom in the history of television?
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'The Honest Toddler': 7 insights into what your child is really thinking
Broken crackers? Refusal to play cars at 3 a.m.? Bunmi Laditan reveals some of the things your child finds frustrating.
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Greta Van Sustern hits back at Fox News men for breadwinner remarks (+video)
Greta Van Sustern and Fox News Channel anchor Megyn Kelly took on their male colleagues who lamented that women are now the primary breadwinners in 40 percent of households. Greta Van Sustern blogged in response: "Have these men lost their minds?"
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10 best books of June, according to The Christian Science Monitor
Here are the 10 June books to which the Monitor's book reviewers gave their most enthusiastic thumbs-up.
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Modern Parenthood 'We don't sell junk food': McDonald's CEO's comment sparks backlash against 9-year-old
'We don't sell junk food,' McDonald's CEO told 9-year-old Hannah Robertson, but now Hannah's also a target of toxic comments. Hannah's mother and McDonald's discuss the controversy that occurred when the 'We don't sell junk food' comment hit the Internet.
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Modern Parenthood 10-year-old in dog cage on turnpike: “bad mom” or pop lynching?
A 10-year-old in a dog cage in the back of a pickup: Yes, it sounds like a “bad mom,” but the pop lynching by viral video may do more damage than she did.
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Stir It Up! Salted chocolate cookies with ginger and coconut
Any day could be a day to thank Mom, especially if she hands you one of these delicious cookies.
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Modern Parenthood Diaper-free babies and co-sleeping: Global parents use techniques we shun
In 'Parenting Without Borders: Surprising Lessons Parents Around the World Can Teach Us,' author Christine Gross-Loh reminds us that our ideas of parenting are products of local culture. What's nixed in one locale trumps in another.
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Oklahoma tornado choice: Trust school building integrity or retrieve kids?
After the Moore Public School District in Oklahoma let parents know via text alert their kids were being held inside the school building, parents had to make a quick choice: Trust that the buildings would stand or race to pick them up before the tornado hit.
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