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10 tricks to getting your toddler to speak early Time-proven techniques that helps your toddler to speak and understand language as early as possible.
Most toddlers start speaking in sentences between the ages of 24 and 30 months. By the time a toddler is three years old, she should be understanding the majority of what adults are saying. Of course, toddlers develop at different rates, and there’s no right or wrong age to start speaking and understanding. But if you’re eager to encourage your toddler to learn to speak and understand language as early as possible, here are ten great techniques you can use to speed up the process. Keep talking The best way to encourage your little one to learn to speak is to talk to them yourself. You may feel silly at…
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It’s time to pay our best women to have children Here's how it would work.
One of the most obvious solutions to our declining birth rate across the West is to simply pay women to have children. Cash for kids. My main problem with this scheme is that it is also glaringly obvious we don’t want all women to have children, and we certainly are not going to pay cash money for all women to have children. We want the best women to have children, and we should be prepared to pay for that. But who gets to decide which women are the best, and what happens to the women who don’t make the grade? Let’s deal with the first issue: who decides which are the…
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The case against over-involved fatherhood Replace helicopter parenting with a healthy amount of fear and respect.
“Daddy, Daddy, Daddy! I wanna play Dinosaurs!” My three-year-old is requesting my participation in a savage game of bone-rattling horror. With her on my back, I crawl around the bed narrating a brief history of dinosaurs up to the unfortunate collapse of the species following asteroid-driven catastrophe. At that point I fall flat on my belly and my daughter squeals with delight. Her older sister, seven, wants to play, so the next round of the game will take place with both of them on my back. On the third round, whoever was in back will demand to ride up front, which in turn creates a crazed need for the one…
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If your children are fat, you are failing as a mother Being poor, lazy, or tired are invalid excuses for tossing a frozen pizza at your fat, unhappy kid.
Most Americans are overweight and don’t see anything wrong with that. As weights have gone up, so have perceptions of being “ideal”, with the ideals getting fatter and fatter and fatter …. and people reporting themselves to be just dandy fine with the situation. Men’s average ideal weight is up 14 pounds since Gallup first measured it in 1990, and their average actual weight is up 16 pounds. Women’s average ideal weight is up 11 pounds since 1990, and their average actual weight is up 14 pounds. Basically, over the past two decades people have consistently said they wanted to lose about 10 to 15 pounds off their current weight…
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Here’s why gay people marrying and having children is the most natural thing in the world Not just because God himself — Morgan Freeman — said so.
The fact that we can even have a conversation about whether human beings should have basic civil rights that other human beings have based on whom they love is pretty fucking depressing. There really is no place in a modern, secular society for homophobia. I think Morgan Freeman has it just right: “I hate the word homophobia. It’s not a phobia. You are not scared. You are an asshole”. Just so. And you don’t mess with Morgan Freeman! Damn, that man is hot! The whole idea that homosexuality is somehow “unnatural” pisses me off. Anyone with half a goddamn brain who stops to think for one bloody second ought to…
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Science warns our porn fueled kids foreshadow a generation of psychos The average boy now sees his first porn by the age of just 11, and science says it has profound negative effects on him.
A London record producer I know is used to hearing teenagers talk about sex. All his working life, he’s been surrounded by hormonal boys in recording studios, hearing them chat with fevered curiosity about how to get girls into bed, and what to do in the unlikely event of succeeding. But now, he says, the studio has gone eerily quiet. Boys don’t talk about sex any more. They sit there in silence, staring at hardcore pornography on their phones, swapping images of astonishing sexual violence as if they were Pokémon cards. “They’re just kids,” he says sadly. “They used to find out about sex by having it. Now they know…