Thursday, April 25, 2013
Patch is teaming up with Dr. Deb Moberly, early childhood development expert and founder of U-City based Children 1st, this week to get all of your questions answered.
It's time for another edition of Ask the Patch Pro, where each week readers get to interact with professionals by asking questions on a wide variety of topics. Our team of experts stop in to help you out and answer your questions. This week, Patch teamed up with Dr. Deb Moberly, an early childhood development expert, to get all of your questions answered. Have a question? Ask below in the comments section! More about Dr. Deb Moberly: Deb Moberly, Ph. D., a former Associate Professor and Early Childhood Coordinator in the Division of Teaching and Learning at the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL), founded St. Louis-based Children 1st early childhood development consultants in 2012. She has served more than 40 years in a range of roles…
Monday, April 22, 2013
Patch is teaming up with Dr. Deb Moberly, early childhood development expert and founder of U-City based Children 1st, this week to get all of your questions answered.
Patch wants to help find the answers to all your questions about raising toddlers, education, parenting and more. That's why this week, we are teaming up with Dr. Deb Moberly, early childhood development expert, this week to get all of your questions answered. In the latest edition of "Ask the Patch Pro," Dr. Moberly will answer readers' questions in the comment section of the Patch sites on Thursday, April 25. Get your questions ready and look for the Patch Pro article that is published on Thursday morning. Check out Dr. Moberly's Patch blogs by clicking here. More about Dr. Deb Moberly: Deb Moberly, Ph. D., a former Associate Professor and Early Childhood Coordinator in the Division of Teaching and Learning at the University of …
Friday, December 21, 2012
A local mother shares her thoughts on school safety and what more can be done in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings.
Editor's Note: Letters to the Editor are welcomed by Patch. The opinions expressed in letters are only that of the letter writer and do not represent Patch. The letters solely represent the views of the author and have not been edited other than to check for spelling errors. Letter to the Editor: This is a portion of the letter that I recently sent to my daughter’s school. Just an opinion of a concerned parent… I think for everyone this unimaginable horror has left us with an uneasy feeling and worry in our hearts. How could it be any other way? Children truly are our most prized possession and we must protect them, now. We cannot send the school staff members into a gun fight with crayons and a stamp pad. As my husband and I are talking …
Friday, May 11, 2012
The cover of TIME magazine's upcoming issue features a 26-year-old mother breastfeeding her 4-year-old son.
If you're a subscriber to TIME magazine, you're likely in for a surprise when you get your May 21 issue in the mail. The magazine cover shows Jamie Lynne Grumet, a slim blonde 26-year-old California mom, breastfeeding her son, who turns 4 years old next month Breastfeeding has long been a topic of debate. When should mothers stop breastfeeding? Should mothers be allowed to breastfeed in public? Seemingly everybody has an opinion. From a Huffington Post report: In the provocative new cover story of its May 21 issue, TIME Magazine has tapped into a two-decade-long parenting conversation that has boiled over in recent months. Journalist Kate Pickert reports on the rise of attachment parenting, a set of techniques popularized by Dr. Bill …
Monday, October 24, 2011
The event is held from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at North High School.
Fort Zumwalt School District's first Parent Coffee of the school year is scheduled at Fort Zumwalt North High School from 7-8 p.m. on Monday night. The district offers four parent coffees throughout the school year as an opportunity for parents to hear district updates and talk with administrators. "It's an opportunity to start a dialogue with the public," Superintendent Bernard DuBray said, adding the coffee events started 10 years ago as a way to allow board members and parents to meet face-to-face and discuss issues. During Monday night's coffee, Presiding Judge of St. Charles County Rick Zerr will speak about the challenges of parenting in the digital age. The Fort Zumwalt North Middle School orchestra and Forest Park Elementary …
Monday, July 18, 2011
One mom’s quest to find a diagnosis leads to a crusade to fight labels.
I went searching for a label. I thought that if I could get my son a diagnosis, we could beat it. Unfortunately, naming it didn’t help. Aspergers has no cure. Instead we are faced with years and years of therapeutic treatment and medication to help integrate him into the world. My 9-year-old son is extremely bright and perceptive, but he has trouble reading social cues and playing with friends his own age. If someone keeps checking their watch during a conversation, I know they are looking to go. E would keep talking, not catching the nonverbal hint. Simple things that come so easily to us must be taught to E like a math equation: person + frown = unhappy. In order to keep E social, we have been advised by his therapist to enroll him in …
Monday, May 16, 2011
The unwritten golden rule of the elementary school parent pick up line.
Allow me to vent, if you will. I know there are more important issues at hand, and in the grand scheme of things, this doesn’t matter. I also know I have no more control over it than I do the wind or the rain. But it still chaps my hide. Every day I leave my house at 3:30 p.m. to wait in the parent pick-up line at school until my children appear at 4 p.m. I take a book, I take my iPhone, I take a notebook and write. I come early, because if I wait much later, the line becomes very long and that means my kids will have to wait awhile before it’s my turn to get them. My oldest son has ADHD so the less time he has to get into trouble, the better. If you knew the chaos he could cause in five minutes, you (and your children) would thank me. …
Monday, May 2, 2011
A mother's hopes for her children.
Cuddling with our first-born son hours after his birth, my husband bent down to kiss his fuzzy (if somewhat pointed) head. He looked up, startled and asked, “My God, do they all smell like that?” New baby smell is so much better than new car smell. For months I snuggled, sniffed, and kissed tiny feet and hands. I nuzzled his neck under his double chins where it smelled faintly of sweet milk and baby powder- heavenly. Resistance was futile, and impossible in his case anyway. Until he learned to crawl. You think your children will always be yours, and they are in the sense that they were born from you—but all other ownership is null and void. As much as we want to wrap them in a cocoon and protect them from the world, they resist. They …
Sunday, April 24, 2011
This weeks Moms Talk discusses cell phone use among young kids.
I have this strong feeling my future kids will look at me like I'm insane when I talk to them about my first cell phone. I was a few weeks shy of 20-years-old and beginning my sophomore year of college when I got my first mobile device. My phone was cheap and simple and did little more outside of calling friends. Of course, this was only 2005 so this was right around the time a lot of people were getting their first cell phones—I wasn't alone. Still, everyone has a phone now. I have two, one for work and one for personal calls. My phones both can access the internet. I use my phones more for e-mails and texts than I do for making calls. Wednesday night, I went to the St. Louis Cardinals game with my sisters. In the row in front of us a …
Monday, April 18, 2011
You're never given more than you can handle, right?
April is Autism Awareness month. Did you know that approximately 67 million people in the world are affected by autism? If you don’t know someone who is on the autism spectrum, would you even give this fact a second thought? Quite honestly, I’m not sure I would if I didn’t have a son that was diagnosed with Aspergers, an autism spectrum disorder. When E was 2 years old, his daycare contacted us to set up a meeting. We were shocked when the director gently suggested we should have E evaluated for autism. Some of their observations included the way he would not interact with his friends while playing—choosing instead to play alongside them rather than with them. He also had a certain way of lining up the trucks he was playing with. He didn’t…
Ashley
8:18 pm on Wednesday, May 8, 2013
I am currently going through mediation for visitation rights for the father of my daughter. He currently lives across country and would like to keep her for a whole month. I do not feel comfortable with this since she is only 3 years old and feel that it may not be good for her mentally. What do you think about this situation? more ›