Here’s a quiz: What distinctly-shaped container is everywhere around you, can be easily filled, but is impossible to completely empty? You might say a toothpaste tube or pump bottle, but there’s a shape even more stubborn, and that’s an automotive tire. Put...
If you think that radiation to the head area is the worst danger of using a cell phone, you may want to hear the latest study from the Child Development journal. A new study shows definitively that using a cell phone at night increases anxiety and depression – with a...
The statistics of drug and alcohol use nationally are scary. Sometimes statistics spread out over a whole nation seem hard to grasp, but they really come home when you see how they play out in a single school system. The Public Policy Research Institute at Texas...
Different parents have differing ways of disciplining their kids. You may have had an abrupt awakening to this fact of life when you discovered that your spouse came from a family where the first response to a child’s refusal to obey was to spank—and you came from a...
I often advise people to use essential oils. In general, they are helpful – sometimes healing, sometimes only comforting, but almost always with a positive effect. If you asked today’s mom what would be her go-to substance to put on a minor wound, she might say...
One myth that persists is that if someone is considering taking his or her life and talks about it, that engaging that person in conversation will increase the probability of suicide. That’s simply not true, says Dr. Gregory Plemmons, author of a new study on teens...
