lily is an elementary schoolteacher and vice president of the national education association. lily, how do you get the most out of school as a parent? you know, go up to the school s website, take a look at all of the programs. there s an awful lot that s being offered in public schools right now that nobody knows about. we don t have a big advertising budget. but we ve got ap classes, international baca lorrate classes, foreign languages, science programs, afterschool music programs. there s an amazing array of things out there. a lot of it is on the chopping block. the more parents who are demanding that their kids have that very broad selection, that s going to help get their kids into those great programs and universities, the more the districts are going to build those programs. that s a good point. wendy walsh is a doctor of psychology and blogger for momlogic.com. you know we re getting mixed messages here. run away best-selling book called dyinger mother that
whether it s been a few months or a few years, re-entering the workforce after having a baby. that can be stressful and emotional. how can you set yourself on a path of successful work/life balance. p still with us is lynnette and windy walsh, blogger for momlogic.com. let me start with you. fascinating here, taking the first steps to re-enter the workforce. if you ve been out a couple of months, it s a little different than being out a couple of years. but what should a woman be thinking of first as she s heading back in? you know, i d like to think that you should plan it all along. even if you re going to take a big, you know, 20% of women opt out completely for many years until their kids are school age. during that timer even if it is a few months, go online and stay up to speed. get the training you need so that when you come back, you ve actually taken a se bat tackle to i prove your scale skills. you can get full university education online now, computer training. it s amazin
and it really wrecked his self-esteem which was pretty bad to begin with after his early background. i think it s important to get this out there because he doesn t want other kids to be hurt the way he has been. that s amazing. i think a lot of us sometimes forget about the things that happen us to when we were kids and how it does carry over and it s so important to get involved early on. maggy and steve, i think you guys should link up. maggie would be a fabulous counselor at your school. forget counselor. i want her to send her kids our way. this is a woman who s done a phenomenal job of raising children. it is important, though, it is important as we part to say that we have to realize that the impact that children have on children throughout the rest of their life can never be overestimated. many of us as adults are still dealing with an insult that we heard sometimes in the fourth or fifth grade and we re still trying to outlive that. i won t tell you mine. i was going say
10, and you asked for his permission to come on the air and talk to me and talk about how he was a bully and how he was bullied, and i know that you didn t want him to come on the air which i totally understand. tell me what he said to you. why did you seek his permission and why did he say yes? well, he s 12 1/2 now, actually. how old is he now? it was important for me to ask his permission because the story is about him. this is his story and it s only respectful for me to talk to my son and see if he s willing to share this so publicly. he read my article that i posted on momlogic.com. he read that article before i ran it and he gave me his thumbs up, and he thinks it s important to tell people the story, too, because he knows he s done things wrong and he s working on that. he s trying so hard and he also knows that people have done things wrong to him and it hurts
momlogic.com. dr. golland, you ve been listening in on this and we ve just had a pretty healthy exchange between expert and a woman who would say, even though i don t have the degree, i am an expert. what s your take, psychologically, what goes on with somebody who wants to own a wild animal. well there s a few things. first, what we have to remember, jeff, is people are attached to their animals in such intense ways. people consider them family, you know? and so i think in this situation, what we have to look at is how are these animals or these choices of animals impacting our functioning level? if i were to be sitting with a client and i find out that they re dealing with major financial issues because they can t afford what they re doing, or they re no longer seeing family, or they can t afford to feed the animal yet they keep it going like that, then we re