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English: Times Square (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) BY JANE E. BRODY Lenore Skenazy, a New York City mother of two, earned the nickname “America’s Worst Mom” after reporting in a newspaper column that she had allowed her younger son, then 9, to ride the subway alone. The criticism she endured, including a threat of arrest for child endangerment, intensified her desire to encourage parents to give their children the freedom they need to develop self-confidence and resilience. One result was the publication in 2009 of her book “ Free Range Kids : How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children (Without Going Nuts With Worry).” A second results is the Free Range Kids Project and a 13-part TV series , “ World’s Worst Mom .” In it, Ms. Skenazy rescues children from parents’ overprotectiveness by guiding the children through a sequence of once-forbidden activities and showing the parents how well the children do. Parents who subscribe to Ms.Skenazy’s approach include Danielle and Alexander Meiti...

Image by MoonSoleil via Flickr NEW YORK   |   Thu Mar 3, 2011 ( Reuters Health ) - Parents who have a hard time getting their babies and toddlers to sleep at night may also often have trouble at mealtime, new study findings suggest. So-called behavioral insomnia , where a young child regularly resists bedtime or has trouble staying asleep, is common -- seen in up to 30 percent of children between the ages of 6 months and 3 years. A similar percentage have problems at mealtime, ranging from being an overly "fussy" eater to having a full-fledged " feeding disorder" - in which, for instance, parents can't get their child to follow any regular eating schedule, or the food refusal affects a child's weight. It might not be surprising to many parents that sleeping and eating issues often go hand-in-hand. But the new study, published in the journal Pediatrics , is the first to show this may be true. Among parents of 681 healthy kids 6 months to 3 years old, I...

By Dr James Dobson Children nowadays live in a world without heroes, and that may be because we’ve taught them that genuine heroes don’t really exist. According to Mr Peter H Gobbon, headmaster of the Hackley School in New York , the tradition of teaching exemplary lives — the study of heroes and role models — has ended. My generation studied the courageous individuals who succeeded against all odds. Admittedly, some of these stories became a bit idealised, but they inspired us to reach for the best within us. Today’s students know all the dirt and the weaknesses of human failure. Yes, Abraham Lincoln was politically calculating and he suffered from depression. But he exhibited astonishing political and moral courage and always appealed to “the better angels of our nature”. I think parents must stand against this onslaught and help the next generation find worthy heroes again. How else can they tell good from bad? We should be cautious about emphasising human failure at too...