Parenting Children

Teaching our sons and daughters how to recognize threats to their safety and how to avoid them is a better tactic to keep them safe. Privacy and safety are not mutually exclusive ideals. We can be secure and free -- in fact, there is no other alternative.

I talk to many parents who experience difficulties because they make decisions on the basis of what their children want instead of what is good for the family unit.

Consider what today's parents face -- the corporate influence, billions of dollars of advertising, and a banking technology that has taught children that money doesn't grow on trees, it comes flying out of ATMs.

Parentless parents could read every parenting book in the world and we'd still never learn what we really want to know as moms and dads.

This storyline is no longer about a Chinese-American mother and her parenting style. This narrative has exposed a raw nerve about the current zeitgeist of parenting and how best to raise our children in 21st-century America.

My dad thought these lessons were important for me to learn, and they are now important for me to share with my daughter.

As their children grow up, parents are often surprised to discover how different each child is from the others, even though they have grown up in the ...