Category: Health
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iPotty, uPotty, we all scream for iPotty!
It’s hard to judge which toy is really the worst one released each year—the competition is so stiff! But new screen-based toys for babies are so offensive that it was easy to give this one the award.
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Book Review: Make Your Worrier a Warrior
Make Your Worrier a Warrior is a useful addition to any parenting library. With his emphasis on practical solutions that any family can implement, author Daniel Peters offers families help with common problems that can cripple their children’s chance at success in whatever they want to pursue.
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Not another damsel in distress
Sometime in the last year I clicked on a link from Facebook about a woman who was being harassed because she planned to make a series of videos looking at sexist attitudes perpetuated by video games. Even before she’d made the videos—before she even said what was going to be in them—the Internet erupted against…
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Talk to your kids
When my children were small, we were fortunate that our lives intersected briefly with a wonderful woman who was temporarily working as a babysitter. She was a refugee and had gone from being a respected professional in her native tongue to a naive beginner in America. As such, she had the unusual experience of being…
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Women helping women
The other day I wrote about how I’m a bit of a skeptic about the exploding field of alternative health. It is so hard to separate the noise of the snake oil salesmen from the soft-spoken voices of reason. But here’s another example of how advances in modern healthcare don’t always happen in the laboratory.…