Throughout his long committed life, Richmond inspired fellow doctors, countless students, and so many others who care about the healthy development of America's children and the advancement of families.
Colleen Perry | Posted 11.30.2008 | Living
Last week, I wrote about the benefits of selfishness, especially to those of us who are people pleasers. I had no way to predict the flood of respons...
Mary Lou Song | Posted 11.28.2008 | Living
As we're frantically driving to the mall to spend our hard-earned dollars on the latest this or the most popular that, I wish that we could just stop.
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 11.27.2008 | Living
The past year has been a tumultuous and uncertain one for many Americans -- massive home and job losses and a spreading global economic crisis. Yet a bright rainbow of hope broke through the clouds of despair.
Christiana Wyly | Posted 11.25.2008 | Living
What are we starving for? We are addicted to corn like we are addicted to sugar like we are addicted to oil. It's the cheap oil that enables the production of the cheap corn in the first place.
Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 11.21.2008 | Living
We are living in a guest cottage of a house that we recently sold. The house and guest cottage are in the Woodside hills surrounded by walking trails...
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.18.2008 | Living
I telephoned a girlfriend today for a chat and she hit me with a bombshell. She politely told me that she saw no point in continuing our friendship.
Peter Daou | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics
I hope we can all work with the incoming administration to begin creating conditions in which we can banish this barbaric and malevolent behavior from our planet.
Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 11.12.2008 | Living
A new study shows that sleep makes for a proper balance of hormones related to appetite, hunger, metabolism, and even fat retention.
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 11.10.2008 | Living
President-Elect Obama's election affirms every child's life is of equal value and each child can strive to achieve at the highest level that his or her talent, discipline and hard work allow.
Colleen Perry | Posted 11.07.2008 | Style
It dawned on me: this is why celebrities have trouble giving up "celebrity." They're so accustomed to someone hanging on their every word; ready to fulfill every wish and desire.
Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 11.07.2008 | Living
SIDS may never have a "cure," but we can learn how to reduce its risk and take those precautions every single day. Adding a fan to your baby's room is an inexpensive and easy thing to do.
Liane Weintraub | Posted 11.04.2008 | Living
The way a baby begins eating in the earliest stages of development sets the course for their life, nutritionally. We want parents to have the opportunity to give their children a better start.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.04.2008 | Politics
We have more to be proud of as Americans than just generating wealth and fighting wars. Barack Obama offers us the potential to reignite that vision and imagination.
David Kirby | Posted 11.03.2008 | Living
A new study makes one thing fairly clear to me: Autism is not a purely genetic disorder -- our changing, endangered, dirty environment is playing a role.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.02.2008 | Living
I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you could have one, too! Everyone's project will look different, but it's the rare person who can't benefit. ...
Julia Moulden | Posted 11.01.2008 | Living
"Nana, what else can you teach me?" This is what my niece whispered into my mother's ear as she drifted off to sleep after a busy day learning what u...
SaraKay Smullens | Posted 10.31.2008 | Living
Once insulin is received, for lucky kids there is a honeymoon period: the pancreas -- so hungry for insulin to break down the sugar and carbs -- begins, almost magically, to produce insulin.
Disgrasian | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
Our advice to you is: if you want to get a lot of candy on Halloween, dress up as a sign that says, "Vote No on Prop 8!"
Christopher Fink | Posted 10.27.2008 | Home
Many children have been learning about and engaged with this election. This is sure to have an affect on our children's sense of civic responsibility to vote and care about our democracy as they grow up.
Bill Hoversten-Davis | Posted 10.27.2008 | Home
My strict but loving parents instilled notions of religion, ethics, obedience, good citizenship -- and politics. Early on, I learned right was right and left was wrong.
Elaine Hall | Posted 10.24.2008 | Living
We found that Obama speaks for all people who cannot speak. Who do not have a voice, literally and figuratively. Somehow, some way, my son with severe autism had picked up this truth.
Michelle Kraus | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics
It is almost more courageous to focus on the blight of children in this country and acknowledge that there is a problem right here in the US.
Vicki Strauss Kennedy | Posted 10.24.2008 | Living
I want to leave a world that is protected and prosperous and safe for my children, and all those tinier souls that my children were, once, not so long ago.
Melina Bellows | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics
As the election is reaching fever pitch, it turns out that the newest constituents adding to the din are tweens.
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Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 12.01.2008 | Living