Our mother’s day edition began with an update by Denise Nichols of monthly deaths then an appeal to get full senate support for U.S. Senate Bill 851 proposed by veteran’s hero and advocate Bernie Sanders: S. 851: Caregivers Expansion and Improvement Act of 2013 113th Congress, 2013–2015. Text as of Apr …
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A startling interview! My guest Jeanne Stolzer, PhD discusses the harm of medicalizing childhood and the importance of empowering boys as well as girls. She then examines the need for attachment parenting, including children selecting for themselves how long to be breastfeed and how long to sleep in the “family bed.” …
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My guest Gayle Rozantine, PhD exemplies and lives what it means to be a therapist. Working with returning combat soldiers and their families, she describes the impact of war on everyone who is touched by it, and devotes herself to providing thoughtful, caring, and innovative services. Meet Gayle and learn about many frontier …
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This is a list of names of innocent children killed by America’s drones But behind each name there is the face of a child with a family history in a village in a far away country, with a mom and a dad, with brothers and sisters and friends. …
Family is the foundation of our American society. In many ways, the family unit is one of the last bastions of decency holding out against encroaching corporate commoditization — the corporations can sell food, medicine, clothing, entertainment, even child and elder care, but they can’t provide the love, selflessness and …
My guest, Carolyn Crowder, PhD, is an extremely skilled educator who specializes in helping parents to respectfully raise empathic, caring children. This is a very good show for anyone interested in children and family life. – Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) | Embed
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As Hurricane Sandy swept through the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, there was and is much concern in the mainstream press about how it will affect the upcoming presidential elections. The implication being that a natural disaster may undermine the electoral process and distort what for many is the …
Nine Republican governors have the power to put Mitt Romney in the White House, even if Barack Obama wins the popular vote. With their secretaries of state, they control the electronic vote count in nine key swing states: Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Arizona, and New Mexico. Wisconsin elections …
No matter how bad things get, it turns out they can always get worse. Wall Street is about to foist a new “innovation” on investors that even the ratings agencies won’t touch. Greedy, reckless, and just plain lazy mortgage originators, servicers, and trustees took what was actually a not unreasonable …
Rep. Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney’s pick for vice president, may be the face of the Tea Party favorite caucus in Congress. But big business interests have also contributed mightily to the budget chairman’s campaign, according to analyses from the nonpartisan political money trackers at MapLight. Wall Street, insurance, health care and pharmaceutical interests contributed the …
Wall Street crooks walk away free every time. So do their London counterparts and other corporate bosses. Crime pays so why not commit it. The only penalty is nasty headlines for a few days and minor slap on the wrist fines or admonishments about promising no repeats. At least not …
On Today’s Connect the Dots, PRN host, green health journalist, and Huffington reporter Alison Rose Levy (www.healthjournalistblog.com and @alisonroselevy) speaks with Francesca Mason Bring, the author of Connecting to Our Ancestral Past. A bi-cultural author, international facilitator and trainer, is an enrolled member of the Shoshone Nation and a graduate …
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As each day passes, the pace of life seems to accelerate – demands on productivity continue ever upward and there is hardly ever a moment when we aren’t, in some way, in touch with our family, friends, or coworkers. While moments for reflection may be hard to come by, a …
My parents modest, single-level, brick home stands on property that was once part of a sprawling estate owned by the Candler family, Atlanta’s Coca-Cola patricians. Built during the post-war, 1950s building boom, the small house is situated in a deep ravine that once served as the grounds of the Candler’s …
At the Group of 8 (G8) meetings this past weekend, President Obama and the leaders of the rest of the world’s richest nations abandoned their governments’ previous commitments to donate $7.3 billion a year to end hunger in Africa, after disbursing only 58 percent of the total pledge of $22 billion and giving less than …