Cross-posted at MotherTalkers.
Good morning fellow moms, dads and caregivers!
I am back with your weekly parenting news update. Here are some topics we recently discussed at MotherTalkers:
There were a couple of Supreme Court decisions that may be of interest. The most recent vindicated a teenager for a strip search she had to endure in school due to a zero tolerance policy against drugs like ibuprofen. But no individual school official was held accountable, according to CNN.
In a previous Supreme Court decision, the justices ordered public school districts to reimburse private school tuition to parents of special needs children -- even if their kids never attended a public school, according to the Washington Post. Still, as one special education teacher in the story noted, parents would still have to pay tuition upfront and prove they needed the services in the first place.
We had a long discussion on the ethics of using nanny cameras.
There have been a lot of recession "trend" stories in the media like families cutting up their credit cards and adult children moving back home to save money. In the latter story, we discussed "ground rules" for when adult children move in. Has the economy caused you to have an intergenerational household?
Finally, caregiving fathers are in the news. Our "tessajp" wrote a diary about how 15 percent of all U.S. combat troops are women, largely mothers with stay-at-home husbands. Also, I reviewed a book called The Daddy Shift, which profiled couples with this non-traditional, but increasingly common setup.
We were saddened about the passing of entertainment legends Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett. As I mentioned in my open thread, I remember listening to Jackson's Thriller album on a record player. Also, I had Michael's juiced up curls, admittedly, not my finest moment. :)
While Charlie's Angels was before my time, there were many women on our site with fond Fawcett memories -- and hair!
I am leaving to the east coast this week to attend my aunt's funeral and visit my grandmother in the hospital. (Yes, it's been a tumultuous couple weeks.) There will be no parents' diary in a week, but I will resume it Saturday, July 11.
Thanks all! What's up with you?