
Sex is power, and that’s how a lot of girls and boys seem to feel these days. Read more You may also like Let’s Be More Aware of the Subtle Sexualization of Our Kids
May 20, 2013
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Sex is power, and that’s how a lot of girls and boys seem to feel these days. Read more You may also like Let’s Be More Aware of the Subtle Sexualization of Our Kids

If a young person shares a sexually explicit photo of herself or a peer, a new study says there’s an 88 percent chance that it will eventually find its way into the wrong hands online. Read more

It’s often stumbled on by accident, but 7 out of 10 teens have seen online pornographic movies and images- children as young as 8 are seeing it everyday. What’s so harmful is experts say the images rewire the chemistry in these young brains. Yet experts say in the next 5 to 10 years school aged… Read more

By Julie Samrick This weekend my kids wanted to go to the park. They wanted to swim. My husband said, "We need one day to clean up. Every room in the house looks like a hurricane hit it!" He went in the backyard

By Julie Samrick Dear Tracy, I am sorry I can’t make your bachelorette party later this month. I would like nothing better than to kick up my heels with you and dance, to celebrate the next wonderful chapter of

By Julie Samrick Can you tell what this is? It’s a clay gorilla, created in its entirety by my seven-year-old daughter. The school assignment was to create a rain forest animal at home and

By Julie Samrick It’s evident why 16-year-olds throughout America’s classrooms continue to read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic The Great Gatsby nearly a century after it was written. The slim novel is packed

By Julie Samrick Like many other little boys, when my now 9 and 10 year old sons were little they were obsessed with trucks. They could point out and identify every variety- cement mixers, big rigs, tow trucks, and

By Julie Samrick It’s hard to keep movie spinoffs fresh, and so is the case with Iron Man 3. Robert Downey Jr. reprises his role as Tony Stark, defense contractor turned Iron Man in the third installment of

By Julie Samrick Very recently I’ve begun meal planning because until now I’ve always had the same annoying thing happen. I’d go to the store, stock up, look at my full shelves and refrigerator and then,

By Lowry Manders I recently heard author Bruce Feiler interviewed on NPR about his book The Secrets of Happy Families and as I listened I thought to myself, “I have got to get a book published!” He is echoing so much of the things I preach (and try to live) about how to create happy ... Read more

By Julie Samrick “Christmas will never be as magical until you have children of your own,” my mother told me sadly after I declared there was no such thing as Santa Claus. When another little girl spilled the news to me at school, first putting any doubt in my head, I quickly lumped the ... Read more

By Erin Kurt Throughout the years of being a teacher, mother and parenting coach, I realized that there are some very powerful phrases, that if used consistently, can be extremely effective when parents are trying to get their child to listen or to get them to do something instantly. Here are ... Read more
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