Tag: family
group name: publicradio
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July 02, 2007 09:53 AM EDT --
As of last week I now have a cell phone. More accurately, we have one cell phone for the family. I hope we only use it to cut long distance costs but I've already observed some strange, addict-like . . .
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September 20, 2006 04:28 PM EDT --
Well, it has been a quiet week in mine. The neighbors are visible more, doing their various lawn tending chores and waving from their work with rakes, and brooms. Our neighbor to the north has been out . . .
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April 14, 2008 11:12 AM EDT --
Are out-of-wedlock births no big deal? Or are they? I am listening to MPR's Midmorning and Kerri just introduced the topic:
Kids without marriage
As the rate of babies born out of . . .
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August 02, 2007 07:23 PM EDT --
“Let’s just stop for dinner,” I begged from the back seat.
Our son was driving—we were headed home from our family canoe trip in the Boundary Waters Wilderness. We had . . .
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September 23, 2009 10:06 AM EDT --
Marketplace's Small Town Hall posed financial questions to eight kids and share a series of seven revealing videos. This one struck me as particularly interesting, because it was so clearly a debate . . .
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March 29, 2007 09:27 AM EDT --
I heard that the University of Minnesota's Veterinary Continuing Education program will host a conference called Building a Bridge of Hope: Interdisciplinary Conference on Family Violence and Animal . . .
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May 24, 2007 03:17 PM EDT --
Wait. I thought I was an adult. But, according to popular lingo, I am also "an adult child." It means that my mom still thinks of me as her kid. Thus she can say to me, . . .
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May 24, 2007 09:23 AM EDT --
In the latest "What are you reading?" discussion I noticed a few people mentioned reading aloud, myself included. It made me wonder how many people read aloud and how they do it.
Despite . . .
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September 23, 2006 09:57 AM EDT --
What if Christians protested Islam? What if we marched the streets by the thousands and protested the killings of innocent people like nuns, priests and missionaries? What if when we marched we took signs . . .
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November 09, 2009 09:28 AM EST --
This video on m ultigenerational living has me thinking:
Would you live with a family member, or invite a family member to live with you? Is there really a stigma . . .
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November 05, 2007 09:49 AM EST --
MPR's Midday features a live event Wanted: Parents , the focus of a new documentary from American RadioWorks:
Every year, more than 24,000 American young people in foster care "age out." . . .
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August 04, 2009 01:06 PM EDT --
MPR's Melanie Sommer just reported that Sparky V, the fifth sea lion to play the role of Sparky at the Como Zoo, has died. He was 31, and the expected life-span for a sea lion is up to 25 years. Read . . .
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October 19, 2006 03:17 AM EDT --
With the innocuous title of "No Child Left Behind," children, schools, districts, local school boards, and state departments of education find themselves in the grip of a governmental . . .
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February 13, 2007 11:35 AM EST --
From Minnesota Public Radio News feature Should Minnesota mandate cancer vaccine?:
Lawmakers at the state Capitol are debating whether to require 12-year-old girls to get a vaccine that prevents some . . .
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June 01, 2007 09:35 PM EDT --
At our kids' school today it was "The Fly Up Assembly." This involves all the children in the school, ages 3 to 14. The teachers, many of whom I have known since 1994, stand in front . . .
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May 18, 2007 09:42 AM EDT --
It is a few minutes to air time for the first pilot of "How's the Family?" Those of us who worked on it know the material inside out -- we've dissected it and put it back . . .
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August 24, 2007 11:05 PM EDT --
I love the state fair. Minnesota has the best state fair. This Sunday I get to have a SHOW there. I have to pinch myself. I can't believe it. I'm the host of a show at the . . .
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November 23, 2009 09:07 PM EST --
The day of Thanksgiving has been designated by the Surgeon General as Family Health History day. For this week's post, we are setting Grant's genome aside and focusing on how our group is working . . .
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October 29, 2006 07:48 AM EST --
The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385) passed in 1878. It generally prohibits Federal military personnel and units of the United States National Guard under Federal . . .
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March 30, 2008 09:10 PM EDT --
Does anyone have a 8 year old girl? Seems like my child changed this year. She is a good kid but she is really trying to test the boundaries. Is this normal?
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