For parents who want to worry less and play more!
Whenever I read something like this it makes me go to dark places in my worried mind that a mother should never go. A billboard bearing photos of four murder victims was unveiled in South Los Angeles Wednesday to raise awareness of gun violence and encourage witnesses to come forward and find suspects in unsolved […]
Posted on May 10th, 2006 by Sam
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About 5 years ago I was working on an ad campaign focused around how middle school children outside of Tucson, AZ use technology. The school happened to be in a fairly economically depressed area and there was fear of guns, gangs, drugs and everything else that could potentially be dangerous in a school. One of […]
Posted on May 8th, 2006 by Sam
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When I was young I always imagined having a daughter. Her name would be Logan (the name incidentally that we gave to our son) and she would have long flaxen hair. She would be smart, sweet, slick and have an enormous amount of empathy. She would love me like a mommy but call me her […]
Posted on May 6th, 2006 by Sam
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Obviously, every kid looks at the end of the school year with different eyes than in Fall. But life threw us some extra big challenges this year. Moving to a new state would have been enough. Having Dad gone most of the Winter was…interesting. I’m struck by how deep the […]
Posted on May 5th, 2006 by MomStar
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The more time elementary school students spend watching television, the more junk food they consume, a group of Harvard researchers reported in the April Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. For each hour in front of the TV, the kids consumed an average of 167 extra calories, about what’s in a McDonald’s ice-cream cone or […]
Posted on May 2nd, 2006 by Sam
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