by Carol A. Josel | Aug 27, 2012 | Articles
It’s back-to-school marathon shopping time again, with about half of all parents heading to stores right about now. Indeed, the National Retail Federation (NRF) estimates that the average family will spend approximately $688.62 this season and, all told, 2012...
by Carol A. Josel | Jan 22, 2011 | Articles
Food has been under attack of late—on TV, in the papers, and no more than on the school-front. The reasons speak for themselves: • One-third of our children/adolescents are either overweight or obese, thus putting them at higher risk for type 2 diabetes, high blood...
by Carol A. Josel | Dec 12, 2010 | Articles
The kindergarten controversy is not about to go away any time soon, as, more and more, school districts across the country turn the “children’s garden” into a full-day affair, complete with reading, writing, arithmetic, and testing, too. In other words, the new first...
by Carol A. Josel | Dec 4, 2010 | Articles
Video games: absorbing, interactive, potentially addictive, and, on many occasion, violent—and therein lies much of the problem. That’s because many experts believe the brutality our children are exposed to desensitizes them and contributes to aggressive and...
by Carol A. Josel | Dec 1, 2010 | Articles
Being mean has gone viral, spreading from school yards and buses to the Internet, causing countless children to despair—even commit suicide—victims of bullying, cyber and otherwise. As a result, forty-four states have now instituted their own anti-bullying laws, and...
by Carol A. Josel | Nov 13, 2010 | Articles
Bullying certainly made headlines after Columbine in April,1999, but it’s taken on added urgency now in light of a recent spate of children who have taken their own lives–quite literally hounded to death. Even President Obama has made it a priority. As he has...
