Archives for January 2010

Hank D and the Bee: It's Snot That Hard to do

Follow Joe Mohr's cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons … [Read more...]

Poll: Recession Promotes More Family Time Over Shopping

During tough economic times, you'd expect parents to be working longer hours to make ends meet and family time would suffer. A recent poll conducted by the New York Times and CBS News has found quite the opposite: "More Americans are spending more time with family and friends … [Read more...]

Natural Childbirth: Delayed Cord Clamping

Do you know what delayed cord clamping is? I remember first coming across this information in a natural childbirth book my midwives had loaned to me, and I was struck at how barbaric it is not to delay umbilical cord clamping. In a typical hospital birth, the baby's umbilical … [Read more...]

WTF? Spanking Young Children Makes Academically Successful Teenagers

I swear you can find a research study to support any belief, custom, practice. Spanking is no exception. I've always fallen under the thought that spanking, a form of physical violence used for disciplining, teaches children that hitting is an appropriate solution to social … [Read more...]