BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

There is a reason why you are asked in court to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. It is because most of the time that is not what people do. Everyone lies sometime. There are many reasons to lie. Sometimes it is to not hurt someone's feelings. Sometimes a lie is for our own advantage. Some people lie in conducting business and in their personal lives. Most adults are aware of when they lie. Young children sometimes have problems telling fantasy from reality. When a 3-year-old insists that he flew to Mars this morning, he may not be lying on purpose. He may not even be aware that it is a lie. Children with good imaginations often take longer to learn what a lie really is. It is important to work with children to teach them about fantasy and reality, instead of punishing them for these kinds of beliefs. A pathological liar believes in the lies, at least at the time that she or he is talking. Their stories tend to be very dramatic. They often portray the ...

And just let me add: 1 in 10 women - of puberty age and beyond - suffering from disorders like PCOS. Just like me. And PCOS makes weight loss almost impossible. But that doesn't mean we PCOSers don't eat healthy! Anyone who spends any time with me knows I am not a candy or carboholic. I am not swimming in ice cream, bread and diet soda either. I eat a lot of vegetables - some of them I grow myself, buy my meat either Kosher or from my local CSA , and enjoy beans, grains and seeds as well as plenty of fresh fruit and flavored seltzer. PETA can go ***** themselves. Oh wait, they just did. PETA: Making women feel bad about themselves by Monica Jean Alaniz The following appeared on PETA’s blog “The PETA Files.” It refers to a new ad campaign put out by the non-profit organization: Lose the Blubber: Go Vegetarian. For most of us, summer is fading fast, but for residents of Jacksonville, Florida, bikini season lasts all year. What does the Sunshine State’s endless summer m...

MEGAN MEIER - SUICIDE WAKE UP CALL! Even online, lives can be broken and destroyed. I've been there myself. The cruelty of those who get their kicks hurting & using others online is unfathomable. It's something I will never understand for the rest of my days. My prayers go out to the Meier family. MySpace, Facebook, MSN, AOL, Paltalk, YahooChat... doesn't matter. There has to be accountability for what was done to this child! CNN Transcript of Interview with Megan Meier's Parents AZUZ: And teachers, that's why we urge you to preview this segment, which discusses a teenager's suicide. Now, bullying has been around for a long time, and we've probably all seen some form of it: kids getting picked on for what they wear, something they say, sometimes for no reason at all. With social networking sites, bullying has moved online. Gary Tuchman tells us the tragic story of one teen who became the object of this kind of cyber-harassment. GARY TUCHMAN, CNN R...