I grew up with a father who was a bully. It was okay to speak if I agreed with him, but I wasn’t allowed to freely speak my mind. I kept quiet for longer than I should have, long after I left my parent’s home. I encourage all...
It took six weeks for George Zimmerman to get arrested for killing Trayvon Martin. The police officer who killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, was never indicted; neither were the cops who killed Eric Garner in New York City. In...
The following is a script from "Denied" which aired on December 14, 2014, and was rebroadcast on August 2, 2015. Scott Pelley is the correspondent. Michael Rey and Oriana Zill-de Granados, producers. Two years and a half years ago, we were...
Jewish activists in Scotland have started a campaign to support the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors across the world, saying the trauma of the extermination camps continues to haunt the descendants of those who suffered there....
Remember the “It Gets Better” campaign aimed at stigmatized gay and lesbian youth? It turns out that the assertion should come with an asterisk: All that bullying and abuse may have long-term consequences. When 1,103 North Americans...
I last wore a bikini nearly 25 years ago when I was eight months pregnant. That summer it was brutally hot, and the stucco bungalow we were renting in Los Angeles didn’t have air conditioning. In lieu of driving to Santa Monica and...
One of the remarkable phenomena about this trauma-informed/resilience-building/ACEs movement takes place in the 739 comments (to date) on Got Your ACE Score? on ACEsTooHigh.com, the companion news site to ACEsConnection.com. People do their...
The Children’s Clinic , tucked in a busy office park five miles outside downtown Portland, OR, and bustling with noisy babies, boisterous kids and energetic pediatricians, seems ordinary enough. But, for the last two years, a quiet...
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Recently I read the book, “ Cheering for the Children ” by Casey Gwinn. This is an amazing book and while not written for church leaders or children’s ministers it is a worthwhile read to anyone...
Beware the mention of natural causes, as in my mother's obituary: "Norita Wyse Berman, a writer, stockbroker and artist ... died at home Friday of natural causes. She was 60." Sixty-year-olds don't die of natural causes anymore. The truth was...
Is our culture of relentless achievement and success driving our young people to suicide? You would certainly think so, given the prevailing narrative in the media about the recent spate of suicides on college campuses: one high-achieving student...
Twenty percent of children are picky eaters but most grow out it. Research suggests that picky eating can also be a sign for hypersensitities that can occasionally cause social anxiety and depression. [To listen to this story go to http://www.npr.org/2015/08/03/...more-than-a-nuisance ]
Thomas Jefferson's vision of democracy has endured in one of the defining documents of U.S. history. But the 607 slaves who toiled in his Monticello estate have left few traces to remember them by. "To understand Thomas Jefferson,...
First, a timeline: On July 13th, Sandra Bland was found dead in her jail cell. The 28-year-old African-American woman had been arrested in Hempstead, the county seat of Waller County, Texas, on the charge of assaulting a police...