Washingtonian Best of Issue

Linda Perlman Gordon is included in the Washingtonian Magazine list of Top Therapists, July, 2009 in the Washington metro area.

Are Dads Spending More Time With Their Kids?

With some many fathers out of work and so many mothers working is the division of labor shifting? While the amount of stay-at-home dads is not large enough to say it's a major trend, fathers are spending more time with their children. The ghost of traditional fathers is hard to ignore, yet many young dads want to participate more in the day to day needs of their young children. Katherine Mieszkowski talks about dads and kids in an article for Salon. She interviews Jeremy Adam Smith about his new book, The Daddy Shift.

Another Phrase for Grandmother could be Allomother

Leave it to the apes to explain what we know from our everyday experience. There is a review of Sarah Blaffers Hrdy's new book, Mothers and Others in Salon Magazine. She posits that the reason human females to go on living for so long after menopause is because of the special help and provisions that these old women could provide to younger kin, their younger daughters and nieces who were still reproducing. Pretty cool. Women have an important role to play in survival of the species after we are finished reproducing ourselves.

Good News if it's true.

The era of hyper parenting may be coming to an end. It seems that parenting philosophies are as fickle as fashion. Each generation puts its own stamp on their children. Now it may be that young parents are reacting to all the pressure to create little Einsteins and many parents want to let their kids be kids. Lisa Belkin wrote an article for The New York Times about a new trend in parenting. If this is true, we can all take a deep breath and relax!