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10/25/12
I’m going to need some help, and I’m going to need it soon. My daughter Ruby is a typically happy, silly two-year old girl. Up until now, I've been able to control pretty much everything she eats and drinks. When she was born, I breast-fed her. When she started eating solid food, she enjoyed...
Manel Kappagoda's picture
10/25/12
Our national economy, the common objectification of women’s bodies by the mainstream media, presidential candidates, and the now infamous 47 percent comment: These topics may seem like they don’t fit together, but they do. On this program we tackle these issues which are at the center of our...
Kristin's picture
10/25/12
Four-year-olds don't mess around – when they have questions, they want answers. During the last Presidential election, my son was a baby. This time around, he’s four and giving me the third degree about the election: What is an election? How do you vote? Where do the ballots go? Why do people want...
Ashley Boyd's picture
10/25/12
I don’t know about you, but I find Halloween to be a particularly challenging holiday. It’s not a gauntlet to run through, like Hanukkah and Christmas—that I can prepare for, with lower-calorie adaptations and proven strategies. It’s not a solidly defined period, like Passover. It’s not a giant...
Debbie Koenig's picture
10/24/12
The UC Berkeley School of Public Health , in collaboration with the March of Dimes , is developing educational materials to help pregnant working women make decisions about taking maternity leave. Given that 50% of the workforce is comprised of women and that a large majority will get pregnant...
Elaine Kurtovich's picture
10/24/12
By Wendy Lazarus and Laurie Lipper Co-Presidents of The Children’s Partnership The Presidential Debates missed focusing on the job held by 155 million Americans: parenting. Here are five questions that the candidates should have answered—and still can. The Presidential Debates are over. And despite...
Kristen Golden Testa's picture
10/24/12
On Monday the American Academy of Pediatrics weighed in on organic food. They found that "an organic diet reduces children's exposure to pesticides," and highlighted studies linking pesticides with many of the childhood health harms included in PAN's recent report, A Generation in Jeopardy ...
Kristin Schafer's picture
10/24/12
The 2012 presidential election will be over in less than two weeks. We don't want to wake up on Wednesday, November 7th wondering if we could have done more to get out the Mom Vote in this election. So for the next 13 short days we're working practically around the clock to make sure moms' voices (...
Kristin's picture
10/24/12
By Saru Jayaraman and Joann Lo Big Food companies and their lobbying groups have lied to us many times. They convinced Congress to include tomato paste on pizzas as a vegetable . They say we need industrial, chemical-laden agriculture to feed the world (check out Anna Lappé’s new video Food...
Saru Jayaraman's picture
10/24/12
I've been writing a lot about Halloween this month, and I've learned something important: Kid Halloween trumps grownup Halloween. I grew up in a Halloween-loving household, where we carved pumpkins every year, roasted pumpkin seeds, and made caramel apples. Those traditions disappeared as an adult...
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