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Black and Latino Kids Targeted with ‘Massive Amount of Marketing’ By Soda Companies
According to the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale, soda companies are aggressively targeting African-American and Latino children, toddlers and teens alike, with their ads for sports, fruit and energy drinks. And to make matters even more insulting and alarming, ColorLines.com reports that the products that are promoted to kids of color [...]
Hood Health: Change Your Neighborhood, Change Yourself
C’BS ALife Allah offers his community and ours Hood Health Handbooks to educate us about health issues that plague people of color, and to get us to consider that our lifestyle choices often make us “the authors of our own dis-ease.” In the Hood Health Handbook, a collaboration of experts in nutrition, medicine, law, fitness and holistic [...]
Why More Blacks Give Their Children Bottled Water And Why We Should Stop!
With all of this talk about childhood obesity and healthy living, it seems like the right move to give your child a bottle of water– a bottle in his or her school lunch; a bottle after school and another one after the soccer game. To be certain, water is the better choice—better than soda, sports [...]
Gratitude
Teaching Gratitude: Ten Ways
Gratitude is a virtue that is taught. We come into this world utterly selfish beings. At first, we only give in ways that bring good things back to us We are naturally thankful for good and pleasant things. But we may not naturally exhibit our gratitude in ways that relay our appreciation to others. It’s [...]
The Butterfly Effect: Personal Power and Global Responsibility
Andy Andrew’s The Boy Who Changed the World is a gem of a concept in a gem of a book. I have been talking about Andrew’s handling of the Butterfly Effect everywhere I go lately because it is a great way to illustrate an important and timely lesson for kids, especially teens (and adults for [...]
Gratitude is Good for Our Health Says Dr. Andrew Weil and I Believe Him!
According to Dr. Andrew Weil, the charismatic and holistic practitioner who I follow almost religiously, gratitude is good for our health. He sites several studies that say that thankfulness and the resulting social connectiveness bring about and help maintain good health, longevity and even prolonged survival for patients with very serious diseases. The recent Wall Street Journal [...]
Education
A Plea for Education from the First Lady
In case you missed this passionate plea for education. Here is the First Lady’s memorable statement on her visit to Great Britain, her first foreign visit. She tells about her life and why education is so very important for this generation. And a special message for the future women of the world. Watch it . [...]
Learning to Read: Picture Books Are Important, Too!
Don’t skip picture books, parents! The New York Times reports that publishers are reducing their numbers of picture book releases because parents are buying chapter books for their young children, instead of picture books. Parents are apparently feeling pressure to move their young children toward reading as soon as possible. According to the N.Y. Times [...]
How To Get Boys To Read
How do you get boys to read? And not just read, how do you get them to really enjoy reading books for pleasure, as a pastime? Somehow it’s easier to get girls to read. Not too long ago, my daughter had a few friends to sleep over. My son, who is six years younger, was [...]
