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Why parents matter!  Yesterday I spoke to future health and physical education teachers at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan.  Most of these students

Posted March 23rd, 2010 What a great meeting with representatives from the First Lady’s Let’s Move initiative. I along with nine other organizations from around

Posted March 18th, 2010 As I posted a couple weeks ago, First Lady Michelle Obama has announced an ambitious national goal to reduce the rate

Posted March 3rd, 2010 Join First Lady Michelle Obama as she leads the way in reducing childhood obesity.  The Let’s Move Campaign has an awesome web

Posted January 26th, 2010 Chatting With Kids About Being Online has some great information and gives adults practical tips on how to talk to pre-teens,

Sidney Bloom, an online-magazine journalist, returns to her hometown to investigate the sudden spike in teenage pregnancies at her old high school. Almost immediately, she

Posted January 18th, 2010 According to a Reuters report from May 2009, a new analysis of data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth

An article in the December 2009 issue of the Health Education and Behavior, indicates that removing low nutrition items from schools decreased students’ consumption with

Posted January 12th, 2010 The website http://www.checkyourdrinking.net is a great online tool to evaluate your relationship with alcohol in a realistic and straightforward manner.  The

Posted January 6th, 2010 Last month, MTV launched a new campaign called, A Thin Line (www.athinline.org) to address the emerging issues teens face now that

In a story reported by the New York Times (5.3.2009), teens can anonymously text a sexual health question and have it answered within 24 hours. 

Over nearly the past 30 years, U.S. children and adolescents have dramatically increased their consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), including soda, fruit drinks and punches,

Posted December 17th, 2009 Sexting is the new term that has been coined over the past year and its definition is the act of sending, receiving

Posted December 14th, 2009 My trip to Missouri last week to speak at the Coordinated School Health Conference was wonderful from start to finish.  I

Posted December 14th, 2009 The conference participants, mostly school nurses and Physical Education Teachers, embraced the message of my keynote address about the importance of

Education!  According to a recent Reuters report in the New York Times, the United States has among the highest rates of STDs of any developed

Posted December 1st, 2009 Every day in his television show, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Fred Rogers talked to children about everyday life.  Much of his efforts

Positive parent-teen relationships, high parental awareness and monitoring of whom their children are with, and family dinner routines are all linked to delayed sex among

Posted November 11th, 2009 On November 9, 2009, I gave the opening keynote address at the 17th Annual Parenting Awareness Michigan Conference in East Lansing,