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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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Benefit of the Belief

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Nathan M McTague, CPCC, CPDPE, CMNEC

As parents, we’re all pretty used to being the ones most “in the know” in the family, right? We’re “the bosses”, “the head honchos”, “the leaders”, “the responsible parties”. Sometimes we don’t own our leadership roles enough, but more often … Continue reading →

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Eyes on the Prize

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Nathan M McTague, CPCC, CPDPE, CMNEC

We parents have a ton of goals, don’t we? We have ideals toward which we live for ourselves, how we parent, what we hope for our children. We have ways we want to be, things we want to do, ends … Continue reading →

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Mama — if you love me — why don’t you like me?

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Nathan M McTague, CPCC, CPDPE, CMNEC

Here’s a question worth considering — What do you think of your child? Here’s a more important one — What does your child think you think of him/her? The two are related but not at all the same thing. Certainly, … Continue reading →

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