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Choose Your Own Adventure Parenting pt III

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Nathan M McTague, CPCC, CPDPE, CMNEC

Welcome to the third and final (?!) portion of this post considering Jennifer Senior’s article in last summer’s New York Magazine, All Joy and No Fun (Why Parents Hate Parenting), which describes modern parenting as almost if not totally lacking in … Continue reading →

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Choose Your Own Adventure Parenting pt II

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Nathan M McTague, CPCC, CPDPE, CMNEC

I began this odyssey with the simple assertion that Jennifer Senior’s article, All Joy and No Fun, in last summer’s New York Magazine casts a wan pallor over the nature of parenting, and moreover, that Senior’s un-fun version, although not the only … Continue reading →

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Choose Your Own Adventure Parenting

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Nathan M McTague, CPCC, CPDPE, CMNEC

I almost wrote a post about it last summer, when I read the New York Magazine article, All Joy and No Fun by Jennifer Senior, but I didn’t. I was already writing something else, and then something else, and then something … Continue reading →

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Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Elf?

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Nathan M McTague, CPCC, CPDPE, CMNEC

OK, he isn’t that big, but you have to admit, it has a better ring to it than, “Who’s afraid of the miniature, motionless Elf,”. Nevertheless, the relatively new advent of Santa culture known as the “Elf on the Shelf” is, … Continue reading →

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