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FAMILY VALUES

THE ULTIMATE OXYMORON*    FAMILY VALUES
“This identical twin inherited his Uncle Henry’s violent temper.”

“Then how do you account for his identical twin who was adopted being as gentle as a lamb?”

There appears to be no argument to the belief that much of who and what we are stems from what we learned and how we learned it with our family of origin, Nature and Nurture entwined. <read more>

SOME POLITICALLY CORRECT LABELS MAKE SENSE
Columnist George Will, in his effort to support Dan Quayle’s pre-presidential campaign, referred in his March 10 column to an author who sought statistics on illegitimacy from a federal agency. <read more>

THE GREATEST GIFT YOU CAN GIVE YOUR CHILD

Blake never earns “happy faces” on his math papers or book reports. His classmates tell him that he’s stupid, and he doesn’t argue. He is convinced they are right--that he will fail in anything he does. Blake, nine years old, has already given up on life.

Janet is an overweight fifth grader. She has no friends and is nicknamed Porky. Her peers stutter mockingly when they talk to her, imitating the sounds of the famous cartoon pig. Janet hates the world and herself. <read more>