Why Your Kids Should Eat More Dirt
Dear Mr. Dad: We’re a few months away from becoming parents for the first time and we’ve been sanitizing our house to prepare it for our baby. We’ve got antibacterial soaps all over the place—no one’s going to touch our baby with dirty hands! We’re planning to give away our dog—we’ve had him for a...CONTINUE READING→
Helping Children Reach their Potential: Learning What Works
It can be difficult for parents and teachers to know what to do to help a child reach their potential when they have a developmental disability, such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). About one in 68 children in the United States are diagnosed with ASD, a diagnosis that is nearly...CONTINUE READING→
Virtual Reality: Diagnosing, Simulating, and Treating Concussions
Recently, there’s been a push to prevent head injuries associated with contact sports. While sports organizations have instituted rules to prevent such injuries, there’s another approach that appears to be even more effective: Virtual reality (VR) headsets, which are being used to diagnose head injuries, including concussions. Just this year, the NFL acknowledged that repeated...CONTINUE READING→
Finding the Best Rehab for Your Needs
When it comes to rehabs and opiate addiction treatment, there is no such thing as a “one size fits all” solution. It is also important to remember that not everyone finds themselves in the middle of a harsh addiction in the same manner. Some might have become addicted through the conscious choice to try a drug...CONTINUE READING→
Effective Ways to Improve Your Sexual Health
Being in a relationship may require you to be sexually active, and you will want to enjoy this part of life in the process. However, the challenges of getting older can make this more difficult for many men. In fact, studies show that 50% of men begin to have erectile dysfunction at around the age...CONTINUE READING→
What Just Happened…Last Year?
2016 was a doozy! No doubt. The Olympics, Castro’s death, Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize, and an unforgettable Presidential election. Two other amazing feats include our sending a spacecraft to Jupiter and the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series. This year showed us that miracles can happen and dreams (and nightmares) can come true. Wasn’t it Anais Nin...CONTINUE READING→
Ten Responses to the Phrase “Man Up”
Check out this wonderful video from poet Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre. There’s more in his new book. https://www.facebook.com/ButtonPoetry/videos/1261860937204782/
Deep, Luxurious Sleep Really is Important … and Possible
The CDC states that sleeping less than seven hours each day has been linked to a host of awful health conditions, like obesity, heart disease and diabetes. And if you have trouble sleeping yourself, you know firsthand the havoc that poor sleep can wreak on your life. Whether it’s physical factors that inhibit you from...CONTINUE READING→
Things Real Men Should Talk About with Other Real Men
They used to say that real men don’t eat quiche. If that was ever true, real men didn’t know what they were missing. This highly informed group only known as they also were absolutely certain that real men didn’t cry. I guess they never watched a football game. If you listen to them, you will never...CONTINUE READING→
Avoid the Holiday Blues This Season
The six weeks encompassing Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s—collectively called “the holidays”—are for most, a magically unique time of year. But for many, the holidays bring hurt. Caused by factors including the weather, separation, death, stress, unrealistic expectations, hyper-sentimentality, guilt, or overspending, holiday depression—also called the “holiday blues”—can zap the merriment out of even the...CONTINUE READING→