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An unspoken pandemic

04/08/2023
Cathy Brownfield

Is it just me or is there an unspoken pandemic for which there is no vaccine? It seems to cover the earth like a blanket. People are on edge, angry, and divisive. Does anyone recognize it? Know how to define it?

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On being Dad

04/01/2023
Anonymous

A tall man, stocky, dressed in work clothes, accompanied a woman across the school parking lot to the door from which the “walkers” would exit shortly. They talked while they waited. And then a little girl stepped from the school into the afternoon. The teacher pointed to the right.

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Everyone has a vested interest

03/25/2023
Cathy Brownfield

It isn’t really hard to see some things, like why children and youth spend so much time on the Internet. Look around the room. What is everyone doing? At home, at a restaurant? When you have a family gathering, are cell phones collected and put in a basket to be retrieved on your way out the door again after the gathering, like collecting everyone’s car keys when they arrive at your house for a party that will include alcohol beverages? Maybe it should be a thing to do when everyone gets home from work and school at the end of the day.

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Everyone has a vested interest

03/25/2023
Cathy Brownfield

It isn’t really hard to see some things, like why children and youth spend so much time on the Internet. Look around the room. What is everyone doing? At home, at a restaurant? When you have a family gathering, are cell phones collected and put in a basket to be retrieved on your way out the door again after the gathering, like collecting everyone’s car keys when they arrive at your house for a party that will include alcohol beverages? Maybe it should be a thing to do when everyone gets home from work and school at the end of the day.

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How is your working mom?

03/11/2023
Cathy Brownfield

Back in 1999 I was working full time. I truly enjoyed my job. I honed my writing skills there, and my editing skills. I was afforded opportunities to meet people, write their stories and see them published in the newspapers for whom I worked.

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Changes

11/4/2023

Things change. People change. Faces change. I have heard that change is the only thing that is consistent in life. Changes may be bad, risky, negative. But they also can become good, healthy and positive again. I do not know how my supervisor at FRC is going to feel about this column, but being the sentimental person that I am … I am an introvert. I write much better than I speak. And I write from the heart. So, maybe Eloise will be OK with these words.

Social media: May change your kid’s brain

10/28/2023

In 2019, WHO (the World Health Organization) published strict guidelines about children’s screen time. Why? Because intensive digital media use is thought to reduce working memory capacity, cause psychological problems from depression to anxiety and sleep disorders, and affects comprehension when reading screens.

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