Call the Right Parent, Regardless of Your Gender Preconceptions
Who ya gonna call when my kid is sick? It better be the dad listed as the primary contact, not the working-her-ass-off,…
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Mixed Gender Sleepovers: Cause for Scandal or Celebration of Diversity
Want boys and girls to see each other as equals rather than potential hookups? Mixed gender sleepovers at a young age may…
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Hate Too Easy to Learn so Parents Must Teach Children Love
My 5-year-old daughter and I had just buckled into the car, headed home after a morning playground adventure in Philadelphia when the…
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Gender Stereotypes Limit Boys as Well as Girls
Many smart people talked about how to recognize and remedy the barriers confronting our daughters at a recent day-long Washington, D.C., conference on…
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Dads Caring for Kids? That’s Allowed? Yes, Ladies, It Is.
Gatekeeping by women often prevents dads from caring for their kids even though science says men are more than up for the…
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Lower Parenting Bar for ‘SuperMom’ Status, Raise it for ‘SuperDad’
Feel free to praise a dad going above and beyond, but hold off when he is just parenting. Save some of that…
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