What Do I Do?

Is your family (or are your kids) Red Dye #40 free (did you know that stuff is a derivative of coal)? Here’s an interesting recipe that allows you to make Red Velvet Cake / Cupcakes and you’ll never guess how this Mom got the red naturally …… she used beets! Beets in cake?  Hey, she [...]

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On Sunday June 6th we discussed the raging debate over Autism Insurance.  It’s a battle raging in the courts, classrooms, therapy centers, doctors offices, legislator’s offices ….. and living rooms across this country, including right here in Michigan. The battle is being fought by parents on two fronts. On the first front is the push [...]

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At What Cost Technology?

by Steve on 7, June, 2010

We’re surrounded by technology and it’s becoming even more ingrained in every little facet of our day (at least that’s what my Twitter, Facebook, Buzz,  Squidoo, Delicious, Digg, Tumblr, 7 email accounts, Ipod, Droid, GPS and Laptop would lead me to believe) .  Between texting, pinging, poking, facebooking, emailing, calling, posting, tweeting, buzzing and favoriting [...]

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Insurance News – Blue Cross to Pay $125,000 in Ground-Breaking Settlement for Autism Care It’s not getting much (any?) attention anywhere in the media but yesterday the ground shifted in the Autism Insurance battle that’s been battling for years in states across this country.  When you buy insurance you buy it to protect yourself from [...]

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This week in our interview with Robert Siciliano we discussed the wide spread threat of Identity theft.  During the interview we covered a variety of topics including : Why Credit Cards are a safer alternative to Debt Cards How your fax machine and copiers could be sneakily stealing your identity without your knowing it The one [...]

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Evidently having four product recalls in 6 months isn’t a good thing – “The matter of a series of Tylenol recalls has been referred to the Food and Drug Administration’s crime division, an FDA official told lawmakers Thursday.” and the child’s recall, it turns out it was because of “…some of the products could contain [...]

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No Long Term Benefit To Delaying Vaccines, Study Finds Hmmmm, what’s this….. a study looking at the effects of vaccines?  That’s an interesting finding ….. They report in the June issue of the journal Pediatrics that children who were vaccinated following the recommended immunization schedule exhibited better verbal skills, had higher IQs and were less [...]

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Phoebe Prince Jon Carmichael Jaheem Herrera Yeardley Love Charles Walker-Hoover All children bullied to death.  Phoebe Prince and Yeardley Love are probably two names that you recognize quickly and easily.  But they represent a fraction of the children that are being bullied in this country.  While politicians are hurriedly trying to get out in front [...]

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A Gentleman Is….

by Steve on 18, May, 2010

What IS a gentleman in the modern age? You see, I don’t think that was as hard a question to answer in the past as it might be today. Carey Grant, surely the picture of a gentleman. Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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How Do We Keep Our Kids Safe? This week’s show was a doubleheader with two great interviews both dealing with that same question. First up was the husband and wife team of Carolyn and Andrew Gammicchia founders of the organization L.E.A.N. On Us whose stated mission is to: Podcast: Play in new window | Download

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Dr. Christine Wood is on a mission to help us all have healthier kids.  Of course she’s a doctor, so that shouldn’t really be a surprise.  However, something that might surprise you are some of the following statistics: American children get 40% of their calories from extra fat and added sugars. Podcast: Play in new [...]

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We shared the air with health care advocate and Vaccine expert Mary Tocco on April 18th and Mary shared with us a TON of useful information, stats, facts and figures about the US Vaccine program. I know this is one of those lightning rod topics.  It seems the whole Podcast: Play in new window | [...]

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Study:  Spanking Leads To More Aggressive Behavior – Time Magazine Spanking Kids Makes Them More Aggressive, Defiant & Prone To Tantrums – NY Daily News Spanking Leads To More Aggressive Kids – NPR Spanking Toddlers Leads To Aggressive Behavior – Baltimore Sun Spanking Is (Still) Wrong – NY Times ~ Motherlode Blog Spanking Your Kid [...]

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About All Of This Bullying…

by Steve on 14, April, 2010

I’ve had it. I’ve seriously had it. I started on this yesterday (Sunday now,  I wrote this on Monday but waited to post it, so I could cool down a bit) at the end of the show but I’ve got to tell you that I wasn’t done (and know some of you didn’t get the [...]

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Great interviews this week! Jim Amick from Nordic Naturals, who is one of the show sponsors but he’s one of the show sponsors because we’ve been long time fans of Nordic Naturals Fish Oils,  joined us to tell us a little bit about fish oils and the Nordic Natural products. You hear all the time [...]

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Great Stop Bullying Site

by Steve on 31, March, 2010

I ran across this anti-bullying website for kids and parents (primarily younger kids).  It’s got some good information on it and some scenarios that parents can work through with their kids. I especially liked that it had some good resources, book recommendations, tip sheets, etc.. Best of all there are little animated scenes that you [...]

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