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Why I Won't Give My Daughter a Cell Phone

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When I was a girl, my parents had two absolute, don’t-even-bother-challenging-them-because-you’re-never-going-to-win rules in our house: No telephones in the bedroom and no TVs in the bedroom. I tried everything: begging, withdrawing,…
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How to Get Your Spouse To Help at Home!

Are you trying to get your spouse to help at home? If your man is only doing 50% of the cooking, cleaning and daily straightening up that comes with being a living, breathing, sentient human being, then homeboy is getting off easy. And despite…

Recognizing a Mother's Pride in Her Kids

Mami says that she’s proud of me, but I don’t always believe her. It could be because I’m an Aries. (Aries are known to be tough on the outside, yet our ruler Mars makes us secretly insecure.) Or maybe it’s the limited ways in which…
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How to Be a Good Enough Mother

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“I feel I need to be perfect. I was like this pre-baby, but something about having a child makes you go into overdrive on the perfection.” “I want so badly to be everything to my child. I feel like I should take her out every day and…
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Medical Myth Buster: Red Meat and Iron

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Myth: Eat Red Meat for More Iron Bust: Green vegetables—including kale, spinach, and green collards—and beans are a higher source of iron than meat. Moreover, they provide with nonheme iron, a form of iron that is more readily absorbed when…
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Stay-At-Home Mom Turns Fitness Trainer

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Josette Puig thought she had it all. In 1993, she married her high school sweetheart. The couple had four children. Her husband had a successful career in Major League Baseball. But one day she woke up and realized that she had lost herself…
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Spotty Nails: What Does it Mean?

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MEDICAL MYTH: White Spots on Fingernails Mean Vitamin Deficiency. What does it mean, really? BUST: Though a popular belief that white spots on one’s fingernails mean a calcium and zinc deficiency, those visible little spots on your…
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Pay it Forward: Be a Good Mentor

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In the late 1990s, I was a high school teacher in Charlotte’s inner-city. My students had stories that were so similar to mine: lower middle class, immigrant, minority, trying desperately to make their way in a world that didn’t always…
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Your Wellness Prescription Is In Your Hands

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I was twenty-five when I learned that my wellness was in my hands. As a third year teacher, I was fully immersed in my career. I taught. I coached. I directed the student activities program. In a bit of prescient wisdom, one student wrote…