Full Spectrum Culture

Keeping a sane home, for the whole family: Part I: Whose Job is it? Part II: Getting Rid of the Clutter Part III: Let Them Help Part IV: It Takes Time Part V: Work Together Part VI: Learn to Practice Part VII: Make It Easy

“…Although breast-feeding has many advantages for children including reducing infections, respiratory illnesses and diarrhea, enhancing a child’s intelligence does not appear to be among them…”

Forbes.com published a story Aug. 22 by editor Michael Noer on two-career relationships that provoked a heated response from both outside and inside our building. Elizabeth Corcoran, a member of our Silicon Valley bureau and principal author of the magazine’s current cover story on robots, sent in [a] rebuttal.

[Note: Also published From Wits End] Wow, what a month! As all of you should know by now, My son was born on May 9th, and his appearance on the world scene definitely made waves on this little corner of the internet. Behold, the Jack-alanche! For the day… …for the month… …and for the year… As you can see, [...]

You may think it horribly egotistical that I’m linking to my own website, but it’s for a good cause. Any day now our son Jack will be born. We don’t know quite when it will happen, but I just wanted to let you know that if you don’t see any posts on this [...]

That baby can dance! For real, check it out.

This is brilliant (emphasis — and colors, of course — added): I think there is a moral here: there is in fact a permanent, universal good of educating your kids to be good, learned people with the skills and habits necessary to lead good, decent lives. But there is no one, single way to achieve that, [...]