Let Me Tell You One Thing

I read the article that cnn.com posted on its' health link today which spurred some of my homegrown rhetoric. Don't count it out, my homegrown rhetoric I mean. If an infant could have the luxury of being exclusively fed by the mother for six months,it would bond the mother and child and improve trust issues in the childhood years and adulthood years. This is from what I have been able to research as a family therapist. I personally breastfed all four of my children. In retrospect, if I had extended that breastfeeding period to the full six months, I am sure I would have had even more results from breastfeeding. The child that I breastfed the least, ( I was a sixteen year old mother) had more illness as an infant than the other three. The child that I weaned from the breast to the cup at nine months old is more self confident than any one of my children. Breastfeeding was not popular in the 60's and 70's, but I have never been one to do the popular thing. My mother encou

I decided some time ago that I would not live or die with regret. I decided that each day would be a day that I choose to do what I feel is the best decision.  I must say that many times those decisions have come with great tension. Do I do this or do I do that? Which decision will be the best choice. The main thing about making a daily choice is that once a decision has been made, it must be one that is without regret.  It may not produce all you wanted it to produce, but at the end of the day there are three things we must be able to say:  I made a decision today based on the premise that:   1. I listened for divine input on the decision.  2. I stood by the decision.  3. I executed the plan.   Once all those things are done there can be no regret even though at times, in retrospect, we see that a different decision may have produced a different result. We must be true and supportive of ourselves as having made a thoughtful decision.   The regret usually comes in when there has been