What does an "American parent" look like?
Sam Chaltain | Posted 05.22.2012
Our well-intended quest for ever-higher achievement has bred a nation of helicopter parents and a generation of children with plenty of love and precious few limits.
Marilyn Wedge, Ph.D. | Posted 05.06.2012
How come the epidemic of ADHD -- which has established itself firmly in the United States -- has almost completely passed over children in France?
Michael J. Petrilli | Posted 04.24.2012
A few weeks ago, a couple of Japanese scholars dropped by the Fordham Institute offices for a visit. These gentlemen were curious about how we manage to produce so many innovative leaders.
AP | JOCELYN NOVECK | Posted 04.23.2012
NEW YORK — So you're visiting someone's home with your child and hot chocolate is served. As the hostess' kids sip the delicious concoction poli...
Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 04.16.2012
The answer may not be to embrace French or Chinese parenting techniques, but as a society we need to examine our helter skelter approach to the American dream.
Paige Bradley Frost | Posted 04.08.2012
As an American mom raising my own children in Paris, I agree that the French do parent differently. Very differently. But the relevant question here is not how is it different but why?
Amy Wilson | Posted 04.07.2012
Last year's "Tiger Mom" tempest made Amy Chua a bestselling author, and Pamela Druckerman, author of the released-this-week Bringing Up Bébé, is surely hoping lightning strikes twice.
Debra Ollivier | Posted 03.25.2012
Though they love their kids passionately like everyone else, the French generally don't subvert their identities to the lives of their children.
Nicole Brittingham Furlonge | Posted 04.05.2012