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“Television can be videotaped but children are best raised live and in person.” - Frank Sesno, Emmy award winning journalist and Dad of 3.  Also known as "Mr. Breakfast" (to his kids at least!) Will you go out with me? Will you marry me? Do you want to have kids? The questions we ask each other have the power to change the course of our lives forever.  In this interview with Frank Sesno, an Emmy award winning journalist and author of Ask More, we draw upon Frank’s experience as a father and an expert questioner to figure out how we can use...

Educating your child - 2 biggest mistakes we make and how to avoid them An elementary school expert shared with me the 2 biggest mistakes we parents make when working with our children's schools.  What are they?1. We ignore our gut feelings.  No one knows your child better than you.  If something does not feel right, investigate it.  Ask the right questions.  If something does feel right, ignore outside pressures to change course.2. We don't let our children fail.  If your children forgets to bring her backpack to school one day or an assignment or her soccer uniform - let...

We are competing with the fast food industry and the processed food industry when we are trying to get our children to eat in a healthy manner.  Here are 3 ways to make family meals healthier and how to compete with potato chips... This is Part 3 of a series, "How To Feed Our Children More Nutritiously" from an interview with Dr. Maya Adam who is a specialist in child health from Stanford's School Of Medicine.  Dr. Maya Adam is a mom of three children ages 12, 9, and 7. You can listen to the interview on The Parenting Journal Podcast on iTunes Here or Download Directly Here. 1. Vegetables first. Before you decide on the protein, think about the vegetables first...

' Dear Mama, Parenting can be so hard.  I strongly believe the major reason parenting seems so hard today in the modern world is because of the nature of our living accommodations.  Humans - for survival reasons - are meant to live in clans.  We are social creatures.   When we have babies, we evolved to have family and community around us.  Maternal mortality was (and still is in the developing world) very high in natural childbirth.  Often, the community (the clan) would need to help raise the motherless baby.  The proverb "it takes a village", while origins are debated,...