Richard Aaron Wright balances his life as a digital media producer and a father.
There are no wrong ways to sleep in on a Saturday morning. There’s only the prospect of child neglect. For parents, a safe sleeping crib is a magic machine in child-rearing because this legal baby cage isolates the little ball of energy, preventing escape while ensuring the safety of the prisoner. In response, children have …
Before I had children I used a lot of superlatives when talking about how I was going to raise children. I’d never use the television as a babysitter. I’d never feed my baby junk food. I’d never let my baby cry for an hour without responding. It seemed that the more I promised not to …
Children’s learning has nothing to do with taking them to see these movies, which are way outta the league of any child. Nonetheless, teach your kids to like good movies and you’ll teach them to think for themselves. Our predictions will follow this overview of the 2014 Oscar nominations. “Gravity” is gonna get most of …
Odd that a country with more poverty, repression and utter backwardness could produce children lacking any and all characteristics of their bumbling ways. The children put forth by communist propaganda seem a strange irony, and we’re even more riveted to these videos by the fact the stakes are so very high for the young ones. …
The suggestion that sleep training will lead to a Prozac dependency later in life is as valid as suggesting that vaccinations lead to autism – dangerous, science-less hogwash. Dr. Darcia Narvaez (aka Doctor Nirvana) purveys the Dangers of Crying It Out in academic settings throughout the United States; she has proven to be a silver-spoon-in-mouth …
Moms are better than dads. It goes the other way, too, depending on the situation. But where children and marketing are involved, a few dads are making a big stink outta the fact their name has been left off an advertisement. The big stink is about the recently launched marketing program called Amazon Mom Coupons. …
“But won’t my child feel insecure and abandoned if I let him cry it out?” An emphatic NO! to the softies who think babies hold some sort of long-term grudge or sustain everlasting insecurities as a result of tough love. Nurturing parents allow their children to fail, and these parents apply calculated measures to influence …
Peter, Paul and Mary sang a song called The Marvelous Toy about toys that do something or another, but who’s primary purpose is to distract and entertain. Will they lead to attention deficit disorder (ADD) and require endless hours of therapy for kids raised on arbitrary distraction? Probably not. What it will do is allow …
We’ve all have those friends. It’s like some maternal/paternal instinct kicks in overdrive to make us post our baby pictures everywhere. Next up, my kid the YouTube reality star. My kid is so cute you’ll thank me for it! Just wait until you see the next picture of my baby’s smile, laugh, sleep, and mess. …
My son is now 8 months and nearly walking unassisted – an early skill that puts him ahead of his peers developmentally but says nothing much regarding his overall intellect. Many people believe that early this or early that means a high IQ, but there’s much more to life than being able to stand fast, …
The boy keeps hitting his head. Sometimes he cries, but sometimes it wakes up the whole neighborhood with that awful crunch yet he just keeps on cruising along. “Nothing to see here,” he seems to be stating with his I’m invincible attitude. Of course, the horrors involved with watching your headbanging toddler self destruct can …
