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  • Men, Give Your Women a Gift This Fathers’ Day: Get Screened for Prostate Cancer
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    Men, Give Your Women a Gift This Fathers’ Day: Get Screened for Prostate Cancer

    This is not an "older man" disease; doctors are finding it in men as young as thirty. Your age is not your safety net here. Be practical and get checked!

  • Note to Politicians: KEEP OUT of Women’s Health Issues
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    Note to Politicians: KEEP OUT of Women’s Health Issues

    These politicians are probably unaware that Planned Parenthood provided more than 830,000 breast exams last year or that they provided close to 45,000 HPV vaccinations. Perhaps these politicians would like to know that Planned Parenthood helped prevent approximately 612,000 unintended pregnancies.

  • My Mother’s Daughter
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    My Mother’s Daughter

    I’ve been blessed to be able to mend my relationship with my mother and in some ways we have been able to make up for a lot of what we have missed out on.  Because I have opened myself up to her, she has begun to open up herself to me.

  • In Defense of Mommy Bloggers…
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    In Defense of Mommy Bloggers…

    In our society, mothers get the blame for everything that goes awry. If your kid misbehaves at a restaurant, if your kid performs poorly in school, if your kid won’t eat his vegetables, if you don’t breastfeed until the kid’s 10, it’s ALL YOUR FAULT, MOM.

  • Please Stop the Mommy Bloggers!
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    Please Stop the Mommy Bloggers!

    Parents in the 21st century have elevated children to a privileged status that can only be called annoying. Any adult who looks askance at a rude child allowed to run amok in a fancy restaurant, or who disrupt movies their parents have no reason to bring them to, is immediately labeled a child-hater.*

  • Putting Yourself First (It’s Essential)
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    Putting Yourself First (It’s Essential)

    Taking care of our own needs and desires seems selfish and indulgent, so often times we ignore what we really need to take care of the other person in our lives.

  • Simplify Your LIfe
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    Simplify Your LIfe

    Work, school, family, kids, friends, and other obligations often take time away from that one person in our life that we would like to spend more time with, but often put on a back burner or take for granted.

  • I Don’t Want Kids
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    I Don’t Want Kids

    I would call my mother after watching a kid for eight hours a day and say, “Nannying is the best form of birth control EVER.”

  • My Parents Still Love My Ex!
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    My Parents Still Love My Ex!

    So, what can possibly stop  you from beginning a new life after a break-up? Maybe your own parents.

  • Thanks A Lot, Mom and Dad
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    Thanks A Lot, Mom and Dad

    I thought it would be impossible to have a civil conversation with someone. I felt destined to a life of yelling matches with my future partners.