Ingredients of a healthy marriage

Ingredients of a healthy marriage

More than 50 percent of marriages end in divorce due to various reasons, including incompatibility, betrayal, substance abuse, attachment problems, faulty communication. Many people lacked role models of healthy long-term love and commitment growing up. When partners...
Partisan brains are different

Partisan brains are different

Although it might seem politically incorrect to suggest that a person’s political beliefs can be determined, even in part, by their physiology, a growing body of published scientific research demonstrates a correlation between biology and political ideology.  These...
Talk to kids about sexting

Talk to kids about sexting

Sexting, or sending sexually explicit text or visual messages, is something many teens engage in but not every parent really understands. Parents know it can often be unhealthy and problematic but may not know how to talk to their teens about the dangers of it. A...

We over medicate

Conventional bio-medicine follows a reductionist model that theorizes that if there is a problem in the body the source of the problem can be ascribed to a malfunction along the body’s chemical assembly line.  The belief is that pharmaceutical drugs will rectify the...

Kids need recess

There has been a lot of discussion in the media lately regarding the disturbing trend of discontinuing recess in elementary schools.  It appears that with the implementation of standardized testing, the quantification of academic performance has taken on a new...