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Parent Hacks

Parent Hacks - daily parenting tips from the real experts: actual parents...

about this blog: "Parent Hacks is a collaborative weblog that collects parents’ tips, recommendations, workarounds, and bits of wisdom – their hacks – in a single pot so we can all partake. Here’s the stuff that would have been left out of the instruction manual...if there were one. We're not experts in the pediatrician-, psychologist-, or teacher- sense. We’re just out there, raising our kids, finding the little tweaks that make this crazy adventure go a little more smoothly.

Much of what you’ll find here will be of the “it worked for me” variety. Every kid’s different in temperament and constitution; apply the gut test to determine if a hack might work for your family.

Parent Hacks is an independent project, but was inspired by the "hacker ethic" behind the O'Reilly Hacks(TM) series of books. Most Hacks books focus on tech topics, but the same experimental, tinkerer's approach applies to parenting. O'Reilly defines a hack as "a clever solution to an interesting problem." Our goal is to give you as many clever solutions as we can."

Bribing Children - Risk for Rewards

"Call it a reward, or just "bribery." Whichever it is, many parents today readily admit to buying off their children, who get goodies for anything from behaving in a restaurant to sleeping all night in their own beds. Often, the rewards are for behaviors their own parents would have simply expected, just because they said so. The new dynamic — sometimes seen as a backlash to that strictness — has some parenting experts wondering if today’s parents have gone too soft."
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Source: Martha Irvine AP National Writer

Resources:
Adelphi: http://www.adelphi.edu/parentinginstitute/
Zero to Three: http://www.zerotothree.org

The Value of Family Dinner

Discussion between Christine Carter and Kelly Corrigan on the ritual and value of the family dinner.

Source: GreaterGood Science Center

How to Praise Children

Discussion between Christine Carter and Kelly Corrigan on how to praise children.

Source: GreaterGood Science Center