What I Learned From 181 Comments About My Daughter's Earrings

Monday, April 2, 2012 What I Learned From 181 Comments About My Daughter's Earrings In the last two weeks I've been called self-satisfied, low-class, controlling, shallow, sexist, smug, priggish, crazed, repulsive, creepy, trashy, frivolous, provincial, disgusting, and just plain horrible. My crime? I pierced my six-month-old daughter's ears at the request of my Nicaraguan husband, an experience I wrote about for the New York Times' "Townies" column. 10 Things I Should Have Done After My Son's Autism Diagnosis Home Makeover: How To Set Up A Kid-Friendly Room QUIZ: How Many 'Normal' Celeb Baby Names Can You Guess? Girls Hitting Puberty Before Age 10: The New 'Normal'? Baby Scales Rock Climbing Wall (Yes, Really) BLOG POSTS Lisa Belkin: Is There Any Rational Reason To Have Children? ...moral tests imply logic, and we are outside that realm when we are talking about...Love...Faith...Children. Would these exist if rationality were the test? Missy Chase Lapine: Concussion Advice Your Kid's Doctor Won't Tell You I always draw a sharp breath when I see the school's number pop up on my caller ID in the middle of the day. Claire McCarthy, M.D.: Study Reveals The Social Justice Problem Of Autism Why, for example, were fewer poor and minority kids in the high-functioning group? Do they slip through the cracks entirely because they are muddling through, and never get diagnosed or get services? Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks: Teach Your Children Well for a Better Life Four times Moses speaks about the duty of parents to educate their children, handing on to them their people's story until it becomes their own. And that's what we do each year on Passover. Marian Wright Edelman: How Our Nation Can Protect Children, Not Guns It's shameful that when child and teen gun deaths are compared in 23 high-income countries, 87 percent of all children under 15 killed by guns were in the United States. Our gun homicide rate for teens and young adults 15-24 years old was 42.7 times higher than the rate for the other countries combined. There are an estimated 283 million guns in civilian hands in America -- almost one gun per person. Why is the United States alone in allowing this unbridled epidemic of guns and public health hazard all over America to continue? As parents and grandparents and concerned adults and voters, it is up to us to tell our leaders no more.

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