To Sleep or Not To Sleep?
On Saturday mornings we take our eight month old to a My Gym class. He loves it and we love it. Usually during circle time the group director will ask each parent a question upon introduction of their...
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America's Perspective on Education
I have to say Oprah has hit the nail on the head. I don't consider myself an avid Oprah watcher but since the object permanence kicked in the days have been very difficult. Yesterday afternoon, the...
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Commercials and Kids
What is wrong with this quote by the president of Nickelodeon in an article on NPR regarding the negative consequences of marketing to children?"But ultimately, Zarghami acknowledges, Nickelodeon...
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Parental Responsibility?
Just when you thought Joe Francis, the cre-a-tor of "Girls Gone Wild", could not perpetuate the over exposure of exploitative coersive female sexuality any stronger, an article in the LA Times makes me...
View ArticleWho Would You Choose?
I hate thinking, what if something happened to me and my husband? During the Terry Schiavo situation my husband and I both said, if that were either one of us please just let us die peacefully. Both of...
View ArticleBlowing Hot Air Out The Wrong Ass!
A panel, established by Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, on higher education issued a report intended to stop the increase of rising college tuition or at least make the increase level with...
View ArticleWho's Breasts?
I can't believe people write this stuff:In the end, there are two effects of breast-feeding that we often refuse to acknowledge. One is the de-eroticization of a woman's body, as her husband witnesses...
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No, Sleep Is Good!
We were doing so good with a sleep schedule but currently my eight month old is fighting me tooth and nail when he goes down for his naps. Lucky for us the seven o'clock bed time remains uncontested....
View ArticleFederal Money and Heteronormativity.
Great.....one million dollars in federal grant money has paid for more heteronormative marriage behavior. Couples living in poverty, overwhelmingly African American, in Baltimore have spent five months...
View ArticlePlan B
I'm sure everyone is giddy with excitement over the new access to plan B. The 18 year cut off is a bit unrealistic but hey we will I'm sure hear more about that in the near future. Here is a wonderful...
View ArticleTeachers and Gender
Does the gender of a teacher effect the learning of either boys or girls? According to a recent study, girls learn more from female teachers and boys learn more from male teachers. Hopefully we will...
View ArticleTeachers and Gender
Does the gender of a teacher effect the learning of either boys or girls? According to a recent study, girls learn more from female teachers and boys learn more from male teachers. Hopefully we will...
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Shopping Cart TV?
Are you kidding me? A television inside a shopping cart for children? This thing rents for a dollar and will show your child videos while you shop. Doesn't take a genius to figure out what kind of...
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Purchasing A Car
My husband and I are making the final arrangements to purchase a car today. Let me say one thing.....there is not much else that I hate more that purchasing a car. This is the first car I have...
View ArticleCheck Biology and Change the Text!
Wording in the New York Times article yesterday regarding the new baby boy born to Princess Kiko of the Japanese Imperial family raised my eyebrows on a few core points. Apparently this baby is the...
View ArticleSeptember 11th
I have chosen not to watch any television today or listen to any radio stations as I take in for another year the tragedy of September 11th. The television and radio will undoubtedly be riddled with...
View ArticleSecond Hand Smoke
We went for a recent visit to the pediatrician and because I'm involved in an ongoing battle over my child's exposure to second hand smoke, I enlisted the help of my child's doctor in handling this...
View ArticleWorld of Toxins
As most of us know the toxins circulating in our everyday environment and placed in our foods is most likely more serious than we'd like to imagine. Science writer David Ewing Duncan decided to find...
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Elmo Evil?
Joel Stein has recently written an opinion piece in the LA Times regarding Elmo, a much loved Sesame Street character. He contends that the newer Sesame Street characters are much different than the...
View ArticleThe Second Hand Smoke Crisis
I wrote earlier on an issue regarding second hand smoke and children. Now the issue for me personally has become a family crisis. I spoke to my sister-in-law on the two choices I believe are best for...
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