SubscribeWill our teens ever get enough sleep on school nights? (0)
10/18/11 •
Our teenagers need more sleep on school nights. But how are they going to get it? A recent study say teens who get fewer than eight hours of sleep on school nights are more likely to get involved in risky behavior. Well, that’s most high school students. The authors of the study say it’s difficult [...]
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Giving my daughter special driving lessons (0)
9/27/11 •
My daughter is talking more about learning to drive, and I’m getting more nervous just thinking about it. Friends with older children tell me this is probably the scariest aspect of parenthood– watching your teenage child drive off in a car, alone. My 16-year-old is signing up for driver’s education classes set to begin in [...]
Celebrating the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial (0)
9/07/11 •
I think that the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. would be embarrassed by the new monument that just opened in his honor on the Washington Mall, not because it doesn’t have a noble intent, but it is far more showy than the man himself. But I think he would be honored by this national memorial [...]
Black and white women talk about “The Help” (1)
8/17/11 •
Nearly 300 black and white women here in Charlotte gathered last Saturday morning to talk openly about racial relationships, using the movie “The Help” as a catalyst for conversations that most of them had never had with each other. As the women gathered around tables to begin the discussion, the moderator asked the black women, [...]
Appreciation for women who worked as “The Help” (0)
8/09/11 •
I invited my mother to go with me to see the movie, “The Help,” thinking it would be a chance for us to talk about a part of her life that she never shared much with my sisters and me when we were growing up. She refused. “I’m not going to watch black people being [...]
I am a member of the Sandwich Generation, a Baby Boomer raising a teenage daughter and dealing with the needs of an aging mother. I am a veteran journalist, having worked for more than three decades as a reporter and editor. Mostly recently, I was an editor with the Metro section of The Washington Post.
