According to a recent article I read, boys are driven by accomplishment and reward. As a mother of three boys under 6, I regularly pay 25 cents to motivate them to accomplish any number of menial tasks: putting on shoes, tidying up, etc. Now that my eldest two boys have reached four and six this [...]
Over the past week, I’ve been listening to the personal stories of victims of the crash on the World Trade Center on the radio. Although 9/11 nearly instantly became an event that connected New York with America and America with the rest of the world, albeit each briefly, local media coverage over the past few [...]
We were back in England this August. Although we were lucky enough to miss the carnage caused by the hurricane and earthquake we landed in the UK in the aftermath of the riots. Everyone I spoke with there expressed a sense of disbelief and palpable anger at the wanton vandalism and destruction that had spread [...]
