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I just discovered there’s a name for a condition that’s been floating around for some time now. It’s called orthorexia, and it’s an obsession with healthy eating that’s gotten out of control and taken over your life.
Yes, folks, we know we’ve been writing post after post about the risks of overweight, and the too-much-junk-food snacking [...]
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I just finished watching the last, heart-stopping Olympic hockey game between the U.S.A and Canada. My youngest is a huge, longtime fan of the sport, and over the years he has taught me to enjoy it too. So there I was, cringing and swearing and cheering over each lightning shot that zoomed across the ice.
Throughout [...]
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In golf, a Mulligan is simply a “do-over.” Hit a bad shot? Take a Mulligan and replay that stroke as if it never happened. In life, we Moms all have moments when we’ve wished fervently for a Mulligan. Times we’re not proud of, reactions we’d like to take back the instant they happen.
This may not [...]
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“The box says you can’t eat them if the seal is broken. So I’m looking for the seal.” That’s the word from one little guy as he carefully sorts through the contents of his animal crackers. So funny, so dear, and such a clear window into his ability to make sense (or nonsense) of his [...]
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Newsflash! Two surprising medical announcements came out this week and you’re probably wondering why on earth we think they’re related.
First, and oh-boy does this make my head explode, is the retraction by the ultra well-respected medical journal Lancet of their 1998 paper that linked the childhood MMR vaccine to autism. Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the author [...]
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The other day on my way to yoga I heard a news story that would have curled my hair if it wasn’t curly to start with. My jaw dropped, my blood pressure spiked and I momentarily lost awareness of what I was doing.
Why? Well it all began when I heard the morning DJ start talking [...]
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Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys
Don’t let ‘em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
Make ‘em be doctors and lawyers and such
Thank you, Willie Nelson. This iconic song is a reminder of one of the really important rules of childrearing:
We don’t get to choose for them.
The truth is our children will [...]
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When we moved to New York from California, my oldest child had just finished 9th grade. He was coming to a new high school and had his fears about fitting in and creating a life for himself in a place where everything was different. My husband and I worried quietly about how it might be [...]
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This week I read a news story about a 17 year old boy in Rising Sun, Indiana who strangled and killed his 10 year old brother … for fun. The boy said he’s had fantasies about killing someone since the 8th grade, and “it satisfied a craving like a hungry person eating a burger.”
Monstrous. Chilling. [...]
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Any of you out there interested in raising a perfectly spoiled, totally ungrateful, downright rude child? One who has a well-developed sense of entitlement and an uncanny ability to always be first in line and get the biggest piece? The kind of child who grows up to be a pushy, demanding, selfish, loud, and aggressive adult? [...]
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