Membership in The Parents League means access to our numerous publications featuring information you won't find anywhere else. Here's an example. The following article appeared in the current issue of The Parents League Review an annual compendium of in-depth articles covering every area of parenting. We hope you enjoy it and that it inspires you to Become A Member. Parenting in the 90's: Same Mission, Different Strategies by Dr. Mary S. Foote The basic mission of human parents has always been to protect, nurture and prepare the next generation of humankind. Without protection young children will not survive. Without a nurturing environment children will not thrive. Without adequate learning of skills and information about life, children will have trouble adapting and coping with the world outside their family. So this mission continues to provide the core tasks of raising children. What is different for today's parents are the strategies needed to carry out this job of protecting, nurturing and preparing their children. "Why listen to Mom when I have the whole Internet?" Our society in the 90's and its consequences for parents Before 1900 the main forms of communication were talking and writing. Now here we are approaching the year 2000 with seemingly unending new forms of communication. The vast majority of
			Here's a list of all our publications. Click on each for a free example of the kind of valuable information that membership brings. Summer in New York A book listing over 400 summer activities in and around New York City for toddlers through teens. Parents League Review A 250-page publication of insightful articles about parenting and educational issues. See article on this page. Toddler Book Lists over 200 programs for children under the age of three Parents League News Keeps you up-to-date with Parents League happenings. Click to read article from home page. The Parents League also distributes the New York Independent Schools Directory for an additional cost. Purchase Online. Parents League Guide to NY Updated yearly, a 130-page book of names, numbers, and descriptions of valuable resources for New York City area families Purchase Online. the parents of the 90's are at least 20 years old and most are in their 30s. Even twenty years ago parents (much less their children) did not have personal computers, faxes, cell phones, cordless phones, beepers, videos, CD's, unrestricted television programming, the Internet, e-mail, virtual reality, ATM's or electronic day keepers. More often than not our children are far more adept at using these forms of communication than we are. Consequently the very technology that was designed to connect us more closely can also widen the gap between us as many low tech parents can only watch while their children disappear into a world of high tech. The gap has intensified the traditional belief of children that parents are "old fogies who don't know what they are talking about." The gap has also resulted in many parents feeling less able to "keep up" and communicate with their own children. As one teenager said to me recently: "Why listen to Mom when I have the whole Internet?" more...