Maybe you’re good to your teeth and gums and you floss every day, but I’m not. Yes, I admit it. I don’t floss every day. So I am particularly concerned about a certain article I read yesterday in Natural Health Magazine. David Shuch D.D.S explained the consequences of not flossing and how brushing is good but doesn’t [...]
This is a guest post by Mely “the Wife” Wilcox. She came back from a run one day in a state of apoplectic rage at pedestrian discourtesy. She doesn’t write often, but when she does you know it must be important. This is what she has to say. It has been said in the [...]
This is a new one. In findings published in the Royal Society Journal Biology Letters (whatever that is) Dr. Nick Neave has associated our ability or inability to dance with mating dances of wild animals, and he’s demonstrated a link between good dancing and better health and virility. Dr. Neave got men to dance [...]
I know why parents enter their kids in beauty pageants, and it’s weird. I’m not alone in that feeling; most people consider little kid beauty pageants to be over the top wrong. Almost equally quixotic and wrong though are baby picture cuteness contests where parents submit baby pictures for judging online or by a sponsoring corporation. Either way, beauty pageant or [...]
Boys can enter puberty anywhere from about age 9 to 13. Obviously it stands to reason that’s when they’ll become interested in girls. But, a boy doesn’t have to have a physical attraction to girls to enjoy being around them. My 7 year old is evidence of that. He’s the first of his male [...]
I saw a questionnaire in this month’s Parent magazine (which I read for amusement while hanging out at the bookstore) that purports to be able to discern the effectiveness of your parenting method by way of a 10 question quiz. Like many half baked, self scoring, magazine based personality quizzes this one asks questions [...]
Getting engaged is nothing more than a resolution between two people to get married. You can’t very well show up at the church one day without agreeing with your partner on a date and time, right? So that’s what an engagement is – you agree that marriage is something you both want to do, and [...]
“Men seek retreats for themselves – in the country, by the sea, in the hills – and you yourself are particularly prone to this yearning. But all this is quite unphilosophic, when it is open to you, at any time you want, to retreat into yourself. No retreat offers someone more quiet and relaxation [...]
What’s the matter with in-laws? Mine like me, and my mom, mom, and dad really like Mely, too (mom, mom isn’t a typo. Read about that here). The only whiff of a problem I ever had with an in-law was 6 years ago when my father in-law called me a girl. He’s a great guy, [...]
Non conformity is one reason some kids get picked on. Like I talked about yesterday, peer pressure causes school kids to try their best to act and look the same as one another. The kids spend so much time worrying about looking like their neighbor that education takes a back seat. But, the question [...]
Peer pressure is part of growing up and it’s hard to avoid. While writing yesterday’s article about school supplies and excessive branding I reflected on some of the things peer pressure demanded of me as a kid. What was cool when you were a kid? What things, if seen with (or without), would make [...]
