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    My Love-Hate Relationship with Mother’s Day: How We’re...

    I hate to admit this, but I’ve come to feel entitled to breakfast in bed on Mother’s Day (complete with gifts and a clean kitchen afterwards), a family hike (no whining, everyone remembers their water bottles and packs their own snack, remembering one for me), and a little downtime with a good book before dinner. [...]

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    The Cyber-bully vs. The Cyber-hero: Why Children Need Exposu

    Children learn about the world through comparing and contrasting relationships between things. They learn to “be still” when they are told to “stop wiggling.” They learn to “be quiet,” when we ask them to stop “being noisy.” Early on our children learn that a child who picks on another child is a “bully” and that [...]

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    One Year Later: The Cover Shot Heard ’Round the World, An In...

    Listen to the original interview with Jamie Grumet on her experience as the Time cover advocate for full-term breastfeeding in May 2012.  Lisa Reagan asks Jamie about her family, her international nonprofit work and what she will take away from this experience when she is eighty. Rock singer Alanis Morissette nailed it when she wrote [...]

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    Boston and The Cycle of Terror

    In the wake of terror attacks, politicians are fond of proclaiming, “We will not be intimidated.” By this they seem to mean that we won’t cower in fear, but will boldly root out the terrorists, visit upon them the hand of justice, and hold them to account. “Make no mistake,” about that, they say. We [...]

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    Women in the World Meet Mothers in the World

    Bringing new life into the world can be risky business for moms and the babies they carry. Maternal and infant mortality are global tragedies, but the real tragedy is we know how to prevent most of these deaths. This is the abstract to the panel I am participating in today as part of the Women [...]

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Boston and The Cycle of Terror

April 17 Culture, Violence 2 comments
In the wake of terror attacks, politicians are fond of proclaiming, “We will not be intimidated.” By this they seem to mean that we won’t cower in fear, but will boldly root out the terrorists, visit upon them the hand o...
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To Me or Not to Me?

March 16 Culture, Self-Image no comments
If there is a single force that generates inequality, violence and war throughout the world, other than the Central Bank, I vote for the self-image we create gazing up for assurance and approval as infants. At this early...