Parenting; finding the balance

I recently walked into a mother and her 16-year-old daughter in a heated exchange, the young girl was distraught and her eyes swollen from hours of crying. I immediately pulled her to the side to find out what was going on and she said her mother had embarrassed her among her friends. I probed further to know how this had happened.

Domestic abuse: Police tell schools about children affected

Gwent Police is telling schools before 09:00 if pupils have been affected by abuse in the home in the previous 24 hours. It responded to 1,119 reports in the three-month period from March to June. In one case, a school was told that a child was at home during nine separate incidents of domestic violence.

End the Plague of Secret Parenting

“For the past few weeks, I’ve been talking with parents—mostly women—about all aspects of life with little kids. (My new book, Cribsheet, focuses on using data to make parenting decisions)”.