Parenting from the Trenches: Ostrich parenting: don’t do it!
“My son would never sneak out of the house!” “Our daughter doesn’t drink!” “Sally Sue never skips class!” and “Bobby Boo would never try smoking weed!” OK. Sure. When pigs fly, right? That is until a...
View ArticleFace time and Facebook snooping
They say parents shouldn’t be friends with their kids; they should just be their parents. The exception to this “rule,” however, comes courtesy of Facebook: a parent really should be their child’s...
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Teen drinking: Beware the holiday ‘Bermuda Triangle’
Julie Butler Evans The holiday season started on Thanksgiving day and Christmas and New Year’s Eve loom large: the triad of big holidays, where the drinking of alcohol (often in large quantities) is...
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Butler: Kids stepping up, when you are down
Julie Butler It’s usually the parent’s role to comfort, to cheerlead, to care when the going gets tough and the tears fall. But occasionally, the roles can be reversed. And it is a wonderful and...
View ArticleButler: Breaking bread together
In last week’s issue, I wrote a story regarding the importance of family dinners and how research by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) has shown that the frequencies of such...
View ArticleButler: Generation Text
Hold on — my texting device (which is foolishly called a cell PHONE) — is pinging. It’s my daughter, Jess, asking me a question in writing, a question that requires a lengthy response, that should...
View ArticleButler: Mean teens
Without rumor and gossip, scores of national magazines and tabloids (and their accompanying websites), as well as countless blogs and entertainment industry radio and television shows would be out of...
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Butler: Birth order myths and maybe-truths
Julie Butler Since the days of Cain and Abel, birth order has fascinated us and formed who we are, perhaps what career we choose, as well as our relationships with siblings, our spouse and with our...
View ArticleTurning the tables on ‘Mommy Dearest’
I have been writing this parenting column for nine years now, and from 1989-99, I had a similar one in the parenting magazine I founded and was editor and publisher of, Connecticut County Kids. In...
View ArticleMy son, the veteran
In doing research for the page 1 story in this week’s paper on the veterans buried in Lakeview Cemetery, I remembered that a young man named Kevin Jack Dempsey, New Canaan High School Class of 2000,...
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