Category: Health
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Here’s To My Health!
I have decided to take everyone’s advice, all at once. I will be the perfect consumer of medical advice, turning my body into my Temple of Medical Correctness. I’ll start with today’s news: Slippery Slope! One Tiny Truffle Can Trigger Desire For More Treats. Boy, did we have to start with chocolate? Well, they say…
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Emotional Intelligence
One year there was a boy in my son’s class who was always bugging the other kids. He would break into conversations, touch kids in ways they didn’t like, and generally ignore the usual social conventions that kids follow. He was also a very large boy, which affects how people view him. It occurs to…
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More about “bad” kids
A cool thing about a blog is that it’s not supposed to be polished writing. You can just dump your thoughts of the moment into it, whether or not they’ll be your thoughts of the next moment! One of my readers took offense at my blog entry, “In Defense of Bad Kids.” She said: The…
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Asynchronicity
It was one of those days. We were in the midst of a thoroughly normal, peaceful morning. My husband had dropped our son at the bus stop, our daughter had eaten a great breakfast, and we seemed poised for a lovely homeschooling day. Then came the topknot. I can’t really explain to you, except that…
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Nature Therapy
I just finished writing an article for Growing Up in Santa Cruz about non-drug alternatives for treating behavioral problems in kids. It was a fascinating subject to read about. I have a personal stake, given that we have chosen to work with our daughter’s problems by trying to find the root of them rather than…