The Need for Parenting Credentials?

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While most of us spent yesterday celebrating fathers we seem to spend the rest of the year placing parents under a microscope.  So far in 2012 we’ve heard about why French parents are superior and why you aren’t good enough if you aren’t a breast-feeding mom.  And those are just the major headlines. Yesterday The Boston [...]

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Sex, Sexual Abuse, and Sports

Don Peters working with young, female gymnasts in 1996; Ana Venegas, The OC Register

Given the recent, multiple sexual abuse scandals in sports (from Penn State to Syracuse, and now even the Amateur Athletic Union) it’s not surprising that this past weekend two major newspapers published stories on the ways in which sports can provide a breeding ground for pedophiles (click here to read The New York Times’ take, [...]

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In the Wake of the Sandusky Scandal, A Call for Youth Coaching Certifications (from HuffPo Parents)

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CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE ON THE HUFFINGTON POST PARENTS The arrest of Jerry Sandusky, a former college football coach and community volunteer who worked with children, on forty counts of child molestation of young boys has shocked and frightened many parents. As well it should. At the end of every weekday millions [...]

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