Category Archives: MIA Parents: Your kid is attacking mine. Where are you?

Stop me Before I Discipline Another Person’s Child

By Jodi Cohen | Published: April 23, 2010

I overstepped my boundaries yesterday and reprimanded another child. We were at kindergarten pick up and I was trying to keep tabs on my daughter, her friend and her younger brother on the vast playground. My daughter and her friend seemed perfectly content on the monkey bars so I was focusing my concentration on her [...]

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Watch your kid so I don’t have to!

By Jodi Cohen | Published: October 27, 2009

Of all the potentially explosive conflicts between parents, nothing seems to upset us as much as seeing another child misbehave and having the other parent do nothing, either by conscious choice or because they are busy running after another child or checking their digital device. Most of us want to do the right thing, but [...]