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January 29, 2016

Carpool Conversations

As parents, we have many titles: nurse, teacher, playmate, appointment keeper. But chauffer is perhaps the one word that strikes dread into the hearts of many […]
January 29, 2016

Food and Fitness for Elementary

If you’re the parent of an elementary school-age child, this is a prime time to make a significant impact on his attitude about food and fitness. […]
January 29, 2016

Suicide Prevention

Suicide is a problem that remains largely ignored in the United States. Here are a few of the statistics: There is a suicide attempt, somewhere in […]
January 29, 2016

It Takes A Village

As a grandmother of five lively and self-confident grandchildren ages 4 to 15, I thought little of the disturbing news of what experts call the “frightful […]
January 29, 2016

Hypercritical Sip

Imagine the following scenario: You and the kids are at your mother’s house for the family’s weekly Sunday dinner. Your brother-in-law brings a bottle of Merlot […]
January 29, 2016

Peer Pressure in College

College students are struggling with a different kind of pressure, which comes from all directions, not just peers. Just because most of them have recently become […]
January 29, 2016

Identity Theft

Hi my name is, nice to meet you, what do you do? This is something we were programmed to do along the way, right away when meeting […]
January 15, 2016

The Party’s Over

It’s a scene played out in every teenage coming-of-age movie: the over-the-top, out-of-control house party. It begins with someone’s parents going out of town for the […]
January 15, 2016

Setting Limits on Screen Time

According to the 2010 Kaiser Family Foundation survey, American youth ages 8 to 18 years old spend more than 7 hours on entertainment media in an […]