Sunday, July 31st, 2011
by Gay Edelman
7 Life Lessons from Bicycling
When I was a kid I spent every summer ramming around my upstate New York neighborhood on my balloon tire bike with my pals. When I was first married, my husband and I took a...
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
by Gay Edelman
Kids Who Cut: What Parents Can Do I will never forget the first time I saw cutting scars. This was a few years ago and a bunch of us 20-somethings had gathered for dinner at a friend's house and there was a new woman there. When her sleeves rolled back, I saw that the insides of her forearms were rope-y with scars...
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Monday, June 6th, 2011
by Gay Edelman
Bicycling: Healthy for Body, Mind and Soul
I'm in love! I have a new toy! This weekend I jumped on the new
Schwinn bicycle I've been given to test ride and rediscovered my inner 8-year-old. As I roamed the neighborhood,...
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
by Gay Edelman
Does Letting Kids Drink Teach Them to Drink Responsibly?
Okay, the debate I’ve been having with the immediate world for years is finally resolved. Score one for making your kids wait for the legal drinking age to take their first alcohol. A
recent study has blown a great big hole in...
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Wednesday, June 1st, 2011
by Gay Edelman
Which Is Worse, Shoplifting or Pot?
When I was editing the article
Sticky Fingers about shoplifting, for our June issue, the thing that really got to me was that lots of kids...
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