Parenting

HPV Vaccine Can’t Innoculate Against Immorality

by Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk November 30, 2011

Last month, an advisory committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta recommended that 9 -12-year-old boys be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV), a virus transmitted through sexual contact. The goal of the recommendations was…

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Can You De-Code the Dress Code?

by Marisa Pereira November 17, 2011

Several weeks ago at church, I noticed a group of high-schoolers who were getting ready for their Confirmation and were therefore waiting in line for Confession. What had me troubled was that many of the girls had on the “Soffe”…

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Turning Thomas into “Tammy”: Good Parenting?

by Steve Pokorny November 8, 2011

What comes to mind when you hear the word “parenting?” Perhaps being attentive, nurturing, caring, loving and wanting what’s best for a child. But what happens when parents’ good intentions go awry?
Take the case of Thomas Lobel: Thomas was…

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Why I Never Should Have Had Eight Children

by Leila Miller October 27, 2011

A few months back, I told you how to raise eight children without even trying. Today, I’m going to tell you why I never should have had eight children in the first place. Had I listened to the devil and…

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Parenting Advice from the Brink

by Erika Ahern October 26, 2011

The Gray Lady ran an opinion column this weekend by Emily Rapp, mother to 18-month-old Ronan. Ronan has Tay-Sachs disease and, by all medical estimates, will die in a particularly gruesome manner before he is three.
The subject is chilling,…

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Getting Over the Tardies

by Lynn Bifulco October 14, 2011

My 5 yr old little man just started Kindergarten in Catholic school. O, how handsome and spiffy he looks in his uniform, so perfectly proper and ready for the day’s adventure.  He smiles and waves as he leaves in the…

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News Flash: Four-Year-Olds Don’t Understand Mass

by Julie Filby October 4, 2011

Sunday mornings I brace myself, I know it’s coming. “I don’t wanna go to chuurrrch!!!” our 4-year-old daughter wails.
Mom: Why don’t you want to go to church?
Vaughn: It’s bor-wing.
Mom: It’s a chance to visit Jesus at his…

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The Feminine Genius: We Know Drama

by Erika Ahern September 30, 2011

After confirming that I “really have three girls,” the next insight offered me by most strangers is, “Oh, your poor husband.” (He calls himself “Blessed among women.”)
The third apothegm invariably runs along the lines of consolation to the downtrodden,…

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