The PoorKim Braithwaite was making progress. She was working two jobs to support her two children, 9-year old Justina and 1-year-old Justin. But on October 12, 2003, she faced a dilemma: her babysitter was late. Kim would be tardy for her shift at McDonald’s if she delayed and she worried that she would be fired. [...]
At 2AM last Friday, Roseanne Roseannadanna (1) was keeping me company. My head kept trying to sooth itself with her famous SNL mantra: “If it’s not one thing, it’s another“ followed by her wonderful laundry lists of foul items. Mine: fluids of many sorts — gallons of liquid from our burst water heater into my [...]
I just finished reading “Equally Shared Parenting: Half the Work….All the Fun” by Marc and Amy Vachon, and I really enjoyed it, in large part because they say so many of the same things as Sharon and I. I especially love the fact that the book was written by a couple, and they seem so [...]
The first step to any recovery is admitting there is a problem. Now what are we going to do about it?
In just one year, the National Football League (NFL) went from a complete denial of any link between concussions and long-lasting effects on the brain to a solid “maybe.” It literally took an [...]
Originally Posted on the Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families Blog
When I first considered testifying before today’s Senate hearings on public exposures to toxic chemicals, I wasn’t sure if I could handle the drastic disruption to my life. It meant taking several days off work and flying from Seattle to Washington, D.C. with my very active seven-month-old [...]
A must-see video for anyone who cares about the health and development of children.
Moms,
The economic crisis we are in started one household at a time, with lenders who figured out that they could trick families with credit products that no one could read and that prevent any basic comparison shopping. And now the crisis is taking down American families, one household at a time, with job losses, [...]
There has been a lot of food safety news and food safety talk recently, but very little meaningful action has taken place to protect consumers. Awareness of food safety is important and we appreciate it, but if no action takes place then its value is lost.
Recently, we wrote about the anniversary of the PCA peanut [...]
Is there a mom out there who doesn’t multi-task? I, for one, can often be found in the kitchen washing the dishes, answering questions about math homework, and participating in a conference call. So, it really gets my goat when members of Congress say things like, “We need to focus on jobs and the economy [...]
A great deal of our popular discourse on “successful women’’ is centered around the alleged question of “work-life balance.’’ Can a professional woman, at the top of her career, really, ever, “have it all?’’
For many, the words “Rhodes Scholar” represent Success with a capital ‘’S.’’ As a woman – and one of the first among [...]
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