Teaching Kids a Lesson via a New Reality Show
NBC, with the support and help from the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancym, will be debuting a new reality show on June 25 called “The Baby Borrowers” The Associated Press reports that the show features ”five 18-to-20-year-old couples tasked with taking care of tots, toddlers, tweens, teens and elderly folks on camera.” On the show, the five teen couples live together for the first time and fast-forward through the various stages of parenthood, starting by wearing an “empathy belly,” then caring for a real live infant. After a few days, the couples move beyond babies to toddlers, preteens, young teenagers and eventually senior citizens. Perhaps, the folks up in Gloucester should tune in.
Concrete Research on Discipline: What doesn’t work
According to U.S. News & World Report, “researchers have spent decades studying what motivates children to behave and can now say exactly what discipline methods work and what don’t: Call it “evidence-based parenting.” Alas, many of parents’ favorite strategies are scientifically proven to fail. “It’s intuitive to scream at your child to change their behavior, even though the research is unequivocal that it won’t work,” says Alan Kazdin, a psychologist who directs the Yale Parenting Center and Child Conduct Clinic.” I’ve printed up a copy and plan to bring it home to share with my husband. We have totally different styles and according to this article, we both have things to change.
Why are some parents out of line when it comes to sideline behavior?
Big news here reported by MSNBC. The worst offenders (to sideline antics) are ego-driven parents who take personally any slights to their children on the field, new research suggests. Here’s a quick peak at the findings:
Most of the parents (61 percent of those who reported getting angry) kept their anger inside.
Among the nearly 40 percent who expressed their anger, about 19 percent muttered comments; 10 percent looked away from the field or yelled comments; about 8 percent stood up from their seats in response to the incident; while others walked toward or away from the field, made gestures or responded in some other manner.
When the latest issue of TIME magazine arrived in my mailbox, I had to tear it open to page 31.There in the headline was the answer to my most pressing question “How to Save Your Newspaper.”
