Welcome My New Niece Kimberly!
I’m so happy I have another niece! Her name is Kimberly and she weighs 7 lbs. 15 oz. and is 20 1/2 inches long. She is the second niece I had on New Year’s Day. How can that be? Staci … Continue reading →
View ArticleAmerica: Locking Away Kids Forever
America is the only nation in the world that locks up minors for the rest of their lives without possibility of parole. They could be as young as 13 years old. “Juwan is one of them. He was a...
View ArticleGood Fathers Touch Their Children
“The one promise I made to myself when my daughter was born is that I would be a better dad to her than my father was to me.,,,It was at age nine, with puberty unfolding relentlessly, that I no longer...
View ArticleThere’s nothing indecent about feeding a hungry baby
Cover girl Olivia Wilde said, “There’s nothing indecent about feeding a hungry baby.” And there isn’t. She told Glamour, “Breastfeeding is the most natural thing,” and “I don’t know, now it feels like...
View ArticleWhy are Children Overweight? 95210
Why are American children overweight? Because they eat too much junk food and don’t exercise enough. Duh. The obesity rate in children is four times what it was a few decades ago. Why? I teach first...
View ArticleGay Marriage in America Approved by Supreme Court
In mid 1960s American television, a foreign man kissing an American man on the cheeks, or two American men almost accidentally kissing each other, were standard sitcom laughs. In the late 1960s, Rowan...
View ArticleBreastfeeding Two Girls is Beautiful
Photos of a mother breastfeeding her two daughters is going viral. The photos taken by Mae Burke show Chelsea Craig breastfeeding her little girls Addy and Emilynn. Some people are upset because you...
View ArticleBrother and Sister Plan to Have a Baby Together
Chalk that headline up as another one that’s not quite what you might think it is but gets attention. “Funnily enough, there’s actually nothing remotely incestuous about my sister and I planning to...
View ArticleChildren: Protect Them or Prepare Them?
Obviously, protecting children from danger and preparing them for life are both important. But America has gotten increasingly out of balance. The overly protected are the under prepared. Many people...
View ArticleBreastfeeding Week 2017
It’s time to celebrate breastfeeding with World Breastfeeding Week between Aug. 1 and 7, 2017. Breastfeeding is the most natural thing a mother and child can do. And yet it’s shunned in many parts of...
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