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Last week, The Baby Website released the results of a survey in which parents of grown children were asked to name the age at which their kids were most difficult to parent. Not surprisingly, the teen years beat out the so-called terrible twos when it came to parental challenges. While the survey respondents reported that their formerly sweet boys became moody, sullen and uncommunicative at age 15, girls were said to hit the wall at the age of 14.
Parents of those sulky 15-year-old boys mostly chalked up their bad behavior up to hormones caused by puberty, an admission that these poor guys are just victims of their own bodies and doing the best they can during a difficult time of life. Girls, however, weren’t given such a pass. Parents reported feeling that the main issue with their teen girls was that while they were “turning into women overnight,” their behavior was regressing to that of a toddler, complete with meltdowns and temper tantrums. Continue reading »
Though Rinku Rai knew she was pregnant, the very pregnant 30-year-old didn’t realize that she was in labor.
Traveling by train with her husband and four-year-old daughter to visit relatives, Rai went to use the Tata-Chapra Express bathroom. What you might not know about trains in India is this: The toilets empty directly onto the tracks.
My first thought when I read that little girls were getting Brazilian waxes was what exactly is being waxed off?
Then I read a little deeper – these are girls of ten and eleven. So again, I’ve got to ask: what is being waxed off? Continue reading »
One of the things that terrified me deeply when I found out my second child was a boy was The Teen Years. See, I have almost no familiarity with teenage boys and what experience I did have wasn’t good. I went to an all-girls high school, and while I have a brother I was away at college most of his teenage time.
The idea of dealing with hormones and lust and insecurities and whatever else boys go through, not to mention trying to teach him a few things about respecting girls and women and not being a jackass, makes my head ache now and he’s still a sweet little toddler.
Feminist blogger Rebekah Spicuglia experienced the same thing when her 11-year-old son announced to her over the phone (she’s a long-distance noncustodial mom) that he was going through puberty. Continue reading »
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