Denise Schipani / 14 Comments / family life, modern families, Moms on moms, parenting /
I’m going to be honest here: I haven’t been having the greatest time lately, as a parent. As a friend of mine has said more than once (and she may have borrowed it from someone else): Parenting isn’t for sissies. My boys are going through tough stages. I don’t know what it is, exactly, but […]
Denise Schipani / 21 Comments / family life, humor, kids and sports, modern families / extra-curricular activties for kids, piano lessons, soccer /
My sons don’t do a lot. That is, they don’t do a lot of extra-curricular activities, at least not by today’s standards. Both boys play soccer (using the word “play” loosely here; James may end up being more instinctively athletic, but rest assured no one in this house is going to college on a sports […]
Denise Schipani / 7 Comments / discipline, family life, modern families, Moms on moms, other parents, parenting / "Why Chinese Mothers are Superior", Amy Chua, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Wall Street Journal /
Since I wrote my post last week on The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, the parenting memoir by Yale University Law professor and writer Amy Chua, it’s gotten even more press — good, bad, backpedaling, explaining. I’ve read a lot of it, not all of it — but I did read the book, as […]
Denise Schipani / 9 Comments / bad parents in fiction, discipline, family life, humor, modern families / CBS TV, sitcoms, The Middle /
You know what’s funny? It’s not most sitcoms (ba-da-bum!). What’s funny is that after the last time I wrote about the CBS TV sitcom “The Middle,” my friend Sally wrote to agree with me, and also to wonder how it was that I even managed to sit down for an 8pm show. Sally and I […]
Denise Schipani / 2 Comments / bullying, discipline, family life, humor, modern families, other parents, parenting, TV Moms (and Dads) /
I’ve now been writing Confessions since May of 2009, when I tapped out my first post, The Birth of a Mean Mom. In reading over random past posts this morning, I felt the urge to re-read a couple of favorites, just to see if I still agree with myself (for those of you who are […]
Denise Schipani / 9 Comments / bullying, family life, modern families, other parents, TV Moms (and Dads), Uncategorized / ABC TV, Bill Bixby, Bill Cosby, Eden Sher, Frankie Heck, mean girls, Mike Heck, Neil Flynn, Patricia Heaton, Sue Heck, The Middle /
So, I was going to write about homework this week, but that will have to wait, because an extraordinary thing happened last night, sometime between 8:00pm and 8:30pm, while I was watching the ABC-TV sitcom, “The Middle.” I say extraordinary because this involved a TV dad, who was not Bill Cosby or Bill Bixby (is […]
Denise Schipani / 12 Comments / family finances, family life, fathers and work, modern families, mothers and work / Andrew Romano and Tony Dokoupil, Joan C. Williams, Leonard Lopate, Men and work, Newsweek, NPR, paternity leave, WNYC.org /
Well, here we are again. By “we” I mean my family; and by “here” I mean with one of us out of a job. Several years ago, my husband left a job that was literally sucking the life out of him (thanks to a bullying boss and a badly-run organization, he lost: 15 lbs. and […]