Lead Poisoning
Recently having found out that my three year old had higher lead levels was a very scary moment. Having our house tested by the city Health Department made it worse. Every surface in our house from the window sills to…
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Family Life
Instilling a Positive Body Image in our Daughters
Growing up & reaching those dreaded teenage years can be very distressing on our daughters, they not only have to adjust to all the changes happening with their bodies but also with all the social pressures coming from school, her…
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Over To You – Issue No 14
As much as abstinence is the right route for some people, a lot of teens don’t want to wait to have sex until they’re ready to have a baby. Puberty brings with it a lot of sexual feelings, and many…
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A refresher in manners
“Someone once said, that manners make the man.” The reason why we are forbidden by good manners to do certain things is that doing of such things gives pain or causes inconvenience to others. Rules of behavior have been made…
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Parents Corner: Young Children and mobile phones.
I have a nine year old daughter & recently she has been asking me if she can have a mobile phone as quite a few of her friends own them. In the t technological world that we now live in…
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Halloween costumes sexualizing our Daughters.
As an Australian we don’t really celebrate Halloween here, not to the extent that the Americans do, but this year we have been invited to a friends’ 40th birthday party & she is having it as a Halloween party. So…
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