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• Teaching Kids the Right and Wrong Way to Cry

  Like many people my age, I grew up listening to Rosey Grier tell me it was all right to cry. “Crying gets the sad out of you. It’s all right to cry. It might make you feel better,” the football star crooned into my mother’s living room countless times. Well, as much as I still love Free to Be...You and Me, new research suggests that crying might not actually make you feel better. Read More... Posted Feb 03 2009, 02:30 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: children, kids, parents, Free to be You and Me, tantrums, therapy, catharsis, grief, crying, emotions, sad, temper tantrum, feelings, upset, tears, it's all right to cry, calming kids, emotional breakdowns, emotional release, crying might not make you feel better, when crying doesn't help, inexplicable crying, tearful episodes, teaching kids to express emotions, right and wrong way to cry, rosy grier, when crying helps, soothing crying, breaking down for no reason, protest crying, comfort, sobbing, soothing kids, cathartic crying, can't stop crying

• Your Kids Don’t Want to Vacation With You

  Oh man, I thought when I saw the title to this article—“My Interminable Flight with a Crying Child”—yet another uptight non-parent complaining about the indignities of being subjected to strangers’ children in public places. But it turns out that Chuck Cohen has some decent points—and he’s a parent himself. Read More... Posted Aug 08 2008, 03:00 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: toddler, baby, vacation, airplane, tolerance, family vacation, public, plane, chuck cohen, crying children, strangers' children, temper tantrum, crying child, uptight