Super Parents Talk

The PTA is offering a special webcast for parents and families which will offer advice and tips to help with the back to school season. A special feature to this webcast will be video questions submitted by parents on the PTA’s YouTube Channel. I encourage you to participate in the webcast. You can register and [...]

Partnership for a Drug-Free America Launches Digital Effort to Help Parents Grasp Teen Behavior and Connect with their Kids
New Study Shows Parents Need the Most Help Talking
About Drugs and Alcohol as Kids Enter Teen Years
NEW YORK, NY,– For every parent of a teenager who has ever wondered “who is this kid?” a new web destination, [...]

By Josh Waitzkin
A few weeks ago, I returned to the classroom of Dennis Dalton, the most important college professor of my life. From the back of an amphitheater seating several hundred students, I realized how much things had evolved at Columbia and Barnard. The lecture hall was now equipped with a wireless sound system, webcams, [...]

It seems like every night when I watch the news there is another story about kids assaulting other kids and posting or planning to post the video on the Internet. I ask myself each time what are these kid’s thinking? Do they find some kind of amusement in this? Are they just bad kids? Are [...]

BEYOND NATURE-DEFICIT DISORDER
It’s Time to Turn Consciousness into Action
By Richard Louv
Author of Last Child in The Woods
Got dirt? “In South Carolina, a truckload of dirt is the same price as a video game!” reports Norman McGee, a father in that state who bought a small pickup-load of dirt for his daughter and friends.
kids and nature [...]