The parenting section of any bookstore today caters to every conceivable stress today's parents face. But what happened to the joy of parenting? When did good parenting become sending your kids to socceer camp and music lessons and ensuring they got good grades? Also on the show: George Bush, Africa's Aids-vanquisher? And: Drop The Rock gathers momentum.
Rock The Boat
New York state senator and minority leader David Paterson (D-29th District-Harlem, the Upper West Side and Washington Heights) and Andrew Cuomo, former HUD secretary and former candidate for the New York Democratic gubernatorial primary, on the Hip Hop Summit Action Network's protest against the Rockefeller drug laws.
Restoration Comedy
David Ernst, director of research and communications for the New York State School Boards Association, on a happy ending for school budgets in New York. More details
Open Phones
Sammy's got cork in his bat, one can find Iraq’s WMD and the New York Times reporters don’t write their own stories...listener calls on whether they can believe anyone anymore.
A Bill of Goods?
Lester Munson, senior counselor for legislative and public affairs at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Gawain Kripke, senior policy advisor at Oxfam, on whether Bush is Africa's new best friend or just another diplomatic flake.
A Stearn Warning
Peter Stearns, author of Anxious Parents: A History of Modern Childrearing in America (NYU Press, 2003), on how parenting got so stressful.