Articles Archive for October 2010
It’s an unpleasant topic. School districts don’t want to talk about it. Kids talk about it but don’t necessarily tell their parents about it. Parents talk about it among themselves and hope it doesn’t happen to their children.
We’re talking about cyber-bullying, and it almost always starts at school. For the most part, cyber-bullying is like other forms of bullying – and kids survive it and move on. But sometimes they don’t – as we saw in the recent suicides of Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi and Massachusetts high school student Phoebe Prince.
Sometimes the best ideas are the simplest. First, start with what we all know – that babies are expensive. Second, understand that a single component of that cost – diapers – can be as much as $130 a month. Third, realize that the cost of purchasing these items can break a young family’s budget and that, according to a recent study by Huggies Diapers, one in three American mothers struggle to provide diapers for their infants. Finally, come to grips with the fact that lack of clean diapers can hurt …
How Perinatal Mood Disorders Took Center Stage in the California State Assembly
Flipping through a Glamour magazine in September of 2008, Junior League of Los Angeles Provisional member Britt Bowe came across a story she could not get out of her head. In January 2007, Jenny Gibbs Bankston, a 33-year-old first-time mother, had shot and killed herself and her seven-week-old son Graham, two thousand miles away in a suburb of Birmingham, AL.
Within a month after Bankston’s death, her twin sister Becky Gibbs Lavelle, an elite triathlete who later qualified as a …
Did you know the average American consumes 25 pounds of candy each year, much of which is consumed around Halloween? And, let’s face it, kids consume a large portion of that pile of sweets.
Kids are not going to stop wanting candy – particularly with Halloween coming soon – but what we do, as parents, to make our children understand the role of candy or sweets in their diet is a lot more important than helping them pick out a great costume (though that’s important, too!).
Because of nutrition’s critical role in …
For some people, even basic health instructions can be challenge. Not because they don’t care about their health, but because their literacy issues often compound their health issues.
According to the Institute of Medicine, some 90 million Americans have difficulty understanding and using health information. As a result, patients often take medication off-schedule, miss follow-up appointments and do not understand simple instructions like “take on an empty stomach.” October’s Health Literacy Month shows us the importance of creating awareness of this important issue in ways that can help save lives and …
