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Today Cervical Cancer: A Thing Of The Past?
The National Cancer Institute released their data this year on the study of the effectiveness of a vaccine that could make cervical cancer a thing of the past. Cervical cancer, according to last y...
Today Lung Cancer In Non-Smokers
I don't smoke but that doesn't mean that I will never get lung cancer. If that sounds improbable, consider the case of Dana Reeve, widow of 'Superman' actor Christopher Reeve. Dana had never smok...
Today Fathers Can Pave the Way to Peace
Many writers and journalists in our society have a tendency to take shortcuts when trying to arrive at the root causes of various social ills. They're apt to make generalizations about how men and ...
Yesterday Pre-People: The Consummate Guilt Instillers
Have you ever felt like the world's worst possible parent? Oh, it's easy enough to feel badly for doing something stupid, but what about those moments when you do something right and it still makes...
Yesterday A Job Can Help Your Teen Learn Responsibility
Does your teen spend all of his or her free time playing video games, talking on the phone or hanging out with friends that don't really meet with your approval? Is your son or daughter always nagg...
Yesterday Making Peace for the Sake of Our Children
When a marriage disintegrates, the split is often the cause of a lot of bitterness and resentment on both sides. Anger, shame and jealousy can fill a space once taken up by love. Hurt feelings may ...
Sep 8, 2010 Teens and the Part-time Job: The Pros and Cons of Letting Your High School Student Work
It seems like a great idea: your high school student spending a few hours a night at the local grocery store making a few extra bucks. In many ways, it is a win-win situation. They can use the mone...
Sep 8, 2010 Biff Flabsnatcher and the Busted Spleen
"What exactly are you listening to?" a daughter is asked as she dances in her room decorated in designer clothes carpet. "It's the new mp3 I downloaded from Biff Flabsnatcher and the Busted Spleen...
Sep 8, 2010 A Cloudy Day in Small Town
I've never tried to be my children's friend. Maybe I'm old school, but I think my children probably already have enough friends, but they only get one dad and I should probably act like one. Recent...
Sep 7, 2010 The Challenge of Modern Parenting
Over the last few decades, our culture has become less and less clear about its messages to parents and other guardians and educators of its children. Parents often experience doubts or guilt regar...
Sep 7, 2010 Where Do We Find the Energy for Early-Year Parenting?
Stepping into the role of mother or father of an infant can be one of the most exhausting jobs we'll ever have. Our newborns' irregular rhythms will throw our own into disarray. Contemporary wisdom...
Sep 7, 2010 How to Save a Marriage or Relationship
Modern commentators on marriage have long said that without a mutual perception of equality, partners cannot negotiate the many daily demands of life. Without this perception, one partner is contin...
Sep 6, 2010 An Argument against Television for Children
Studies have shown that in the past few decades, a significant number of American children spent more time in front of a television set than in a classroom. Many of them were free to watch without ...
Sep 6, 2010 Diffusing the Heated Moments with Our Partners
Many of the problems that intimate partners face result from unspoken assumptions that both of them are holding onto. Difficulties with communication arise when our partners are saying one thing an...
Sep 6, 2010 Video Games and the Developing Child
Video games have become a dominant industry, grossing more than motion pictures over the last few years and employing as much cutting-edge technology as the U.S. National Defense. In many ways, the...
Sep 5, 2010 When Parents of a Teen Divorce
He may be six-feet tall and she may look every bit the young woman, but parents still see the grinning freckled-faced boy or the tow-headed girl twirling around in a pirouette. A teen's thoughts ...
Sep 5, 2010 Why Is Everybody Always Picking on Me?
When I was twelve I had braces, thick, blue plastic glasses, and long wavy hair. Very Sarah Jessica Parker in Square Pegs. Needless to say, I was an easy target for other girls and boys to pick on....
Sep 5, 2010 Where Boys Find their Mentors
Many sons in our day and age spend a lot of time separated from their fathers due to work constraints, divorce or other factors. The lack of a consistent male role model in the house can complicate...