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04/25/12
by Rachel Sarnoff, Executive Director & CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org Happiest Babies Are Soothed by 5 S’s Can simple soothing take the place of sugar? That was the takeaway from a new study published this week in the journal Pediatrics. In a study involving more than 200...
04/24/12
Last week was a busy one for Sofía Gatica. On Monday, she won the global Goldman Environmental Prize for her efforts to protect her children and neighbors from pesticides. On Wednesday, she asked President Obama to investigate Monsanto’s “pesticide poisonings and livelihood harms” in her community...
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04/24/12
MomsRising does a great job of creating a community of support for women. We at www.ctworkingmoms.com strive to create a similar sense of community and work to foster an environment of respect, honesty and encouragement. We just started a new series based off of our blogger Stephanie Wright's...
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04/24/12
Post written by: Riane Eisler and Valerie Young Who says partisan politics only results in division, discord and gridlock? After this week’s media frenzy over whether or not Ann Romney was “working” when she raised five boys, a consensus of sorts has emerged. Both Democrats and Republicans agree...
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04/23/12
The 40 th anniversary of Title IX is coming up in June. There is cause to celebrate the advances in gender equity that Title IX has brought to intercollegiate athletics, but the words “athletics”, “sports,” and “athlete” are not even mentioned in the statute. The purpose of Title IX was to open...
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04/23/12
This article originally appeared in the Tiki Tiki Blog . Regret is sometimes a mami’s secret friend. In this particular instance, my regret is having not learned how to cook all my ‘buelita’s favorite dishes. Oh, it’s not that I didn’t like the food! No, no, no, mi’ja. I LOVED the food and was more...
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04/23/12
My oldest daughter is 8 and in 2nd grade. When she first started school, she began in the Montgomery county summer school program which was free for one month. Hallelujah. She was given free breakfast. Another plus. However, when I went to the cafeteria I was a lot less impressed. Now granted, they...
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04/23/12
Earth Day is a great opportunity to remember and reflect, if only for a moment, on the symbiotic relationship between our planet and its inhabitants. Now, what if we could be present to it every day, and taste daily the beautiful richness it gives our lives? Eating presents us and our families with...
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04/23/12
It's National Minority Health Month and the Maryland Women’s Coalition for Health Care Reform (Coalition) is working from the principle: Reform. It’s Good for Your Health to advance the mission of health equity in Maryland. Through the successful implementation of the Patient Protection and...
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04/23/12
I originally shared this story on my personal blog MotherTalkers.com. -Elisa I was debating if and how to post this story as I know that childhood obesity is a touchy subject. But like many Latino families across the country , our family has certainly grappled with obesity and related illnesses...
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