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Another parental job for the schools? I don’t think so.

July 6th, 2010 by Froma in education, families, technology

Kids write nasty things to schoolmates, or even worse, post them on Facebook or other social networking sites.  Not nice, but is a school’s job to discipline them?

HOW MUCH CYBER-PARENTING MUST SCHOOLS DO?

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More on Financial Reform

June 29th, 2010 by Froma in Froma Harrop, Wall Street, Washington, culture, families, politics

My new column expands on an earlier blog about the romantic conservative belief in ordinary Americans’ ability to bushwhack through the market for complex and tricky financial products, much less the outright frauds.

Here is

HEAVEN MUST WAIT FOR MONEY-SAVVY PUBLIC

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Parents ignoring their kids

June 15th, 2010 by Froma in Froma Harrop, culture, families, technology

Parents are ignoring their children as they go off in their own techno-cloud of texting, cell-phoning and chatting with Facebook friends.  Such distractions may not be all bad, however, as I discuss in

IS IT OK TO BE HALF THERE?

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