Teaching Children About the Fourth of July

July Fourth.  The birthday of our country.  The anniversary of our independence made official.
How does a parent teach their young children about the reality of such a holiday, before images of barbecued burgers and dogs, vast quantities of alcohol consumption, red-white-and-blue-decorated desserts and burning up money (otherwise known as purchasing and setting off fireworks for [...]

Why Don’t School Buses Have Seatbelts?

While driving behind a school bus today, watching the apparent elementary-aged, summer-school-goers hop from one seat to the next, bopping each other on the head with fists, standing up in the aisle and, in one kid’s instance, hanging half a body out the window,  I was reminded of a question that intermittently frequents my mind, [...]

Birth/Breastfeeding Survey Update

Wowy-wow-wow!  We’re on a roll!
With now almost 100 responses to this survey, about medical interventions during childbirth and breastfeeding practices, the thing is finally going viral!  (Andrew, are you proud of me for using this techy term?)
Rather than list off all the locales we now have represtened, I’ll do the opposite:
Out of the fifty United [...]

On Fathers and City Underwear Ordinances

Did you get wind of this story out of Brokksville, FL?  Apparently, there must have been a problem with city workers showing up for work with foul language on their clothes, an excess of piercings and…yes…an absence of underwear.  Resultantly, the city passed an ordinance that “prohibits exposed underwear, clothing with foul language, ’sexually provocative’ [...]

There is a Time For Everything

Do you ever feel like your body just works better…or worse…at certain times of the day?  Do you find yourself warm in the morning, cold in the afternoon, or altogether different right before and during your period?  Have you ever been faced with the question of when you’d like to schedule surgery, a root canal, [...]