Talking with Your Kids About Terrorism. Part 2

| June 25, 2012

Assure them about safety.? Acknowledge that this was an attack on the United States and that for all of us, this feels different than other bad things that have happened before. At the same time, our government, caring adults like teachers and law enforcement and you, as parents, are going to do everything we can [...]

Talking with Your Kids About Terrorism. Part 1

| June 25, 2012

All of us are traumatized by the events of September 11th.? As we struggle to make sense of it all and go on with our daily lives, it’s important to pay special attention to our children, who also are impacted by the terrible tragedies they see and hear being discussed around them and on the [...]

We need Stretching Exercises for Golf!

| June 20, 2012

We need good stretching exercises for golf. Mostly for the back and upper legs. Answer: Increasing your flexibility definitely can help your golf game. Golf places a lot of demand on the muscles of the trunk, low back and shoulders.

Mothering Styles

| June 12, 2012

In the book she co-authored with Stephan Poulter, “Mending the Broken Bough” (Berkley, 1998, $13), family therapist Barbara Zax identifies different styles of mothering. There is no pure type of mother, she said, but most mothers have one distinctive style along with bits of each of the others. The book is about mothers and daughters, [...]

Baby Needs or Mom Wants

| June 1, 2012

I had barely discovered I was pregnant when the catalog companies found me. Every day the mail brought three or four catalogs that seemed to imply that I’d be a negligent mom if I didn’t buy my baby a diaper wipe warmer, an electric bottle shaker, and “hard-to-find” knitted sheets.

Deciding on Treatment

| June 1, 2012

It is very important to see your doctor right away, once a genital ulcer or sore begins to develop. There are several reasons for being expedient. First, the earlier the physician has access to the sores, the more likely the test will be accurate when an ulcer is truly due to herpes.