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10/13/2011
My 4 Year Old Even Gets It While having lunch with my 4 year old daughter, we were listening to your "call of the day," about a lady living with her boyfriend and basically being his nanny, with no promise of marriage. More >>

Tags: Humor, Morals, Ethics, Values, Read On-Air, Response to a Call, Values
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10/12/2011
I Found PEACE by Taking On Another Task Okay... here I went! We all raced to the teacher resource store, office store, bookshelf store. We went to the school for a meeting with the teacher and principal, and to the library for curriculum and supplies. More >>

Tags: Education, Homeschool, Homeschooling, Parenting, Read On-Air, Stay-at-Home Mom
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10/11/2011
The Strength to Leave I raised my kids in a home with a man, who for 17 years kept us in fear. He wouldn't allow me to have any friends at all, nor even go with my mom to lunch for fear I would tell someone about our lives. More >>

Tags: Abuse, Character, Courage, Conscience, Character-Courage-Conscience, spousal abuse, Values
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10/10/2011
Dead Beat Dad I am what I call a "Dead Beat Dad."

Let me explain.

After my wife filed for a divorce I felt dead inside. More >>

Tags: Behavior, Divorce, Fatherhood, Motherhood-Fatherhood, Parenting, Respect
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10/07/2011
Building Up to Military Pushups Imagine if you were a severely out-of-shape, overweight woman and your first exercise was trying to bench press 200 or more pounds. You could barely lift it a few inches up and down, if at all. More >>

Tags: Eat Less-Move More, exercise, Health, Read On-Air, Response to a Comment
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10/06/2011
Our Drug Seeking Nation From alcohol, to prescription, to recreational, it seems our favorite past time as a nation has became drug use. Now our children are becoming victims of our ignorance and lazy life styles. More >>

Tags: Eat Less-Move More, exercise, Health, Parenting
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10/05/2011
Not Perfect Bodies of Wives in Lingerie I heard you talk about the fat lady who got the largest size lingerie she could find, and even though it was still too tight, her husband went wild. More >>

Tags: marriage, Response to a Comment, Sex
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10/04/2011
Bedtime Reading and Child Rearing I agree with the tone of your advice about raising children. I have two "old" kids now (24 and 27) and I wanted to add one thing that worked for us: reading to them daily before they went to bed. More >>

Tags: Parenting
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10/03/2011
Why Are You Always Rejecting Me? "I'm tired." "I'm exhausted" "I need to tuck our daughter into bed" "I need to change the baby's diaper"... For too many weeks now, these have been my reasons, no wait, excuses, for not wanting to make love with my husband. More >>

Tags: Behavior, Gratitude, Read On-Air, Sex, The Proper Care, The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands, Values, Women's Point of View
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09/29/2011
If I Had A Magic Wand... I'd go back in time and have a re-do of some of the mistakes I had made.

I would have been involved in sports, instead of guys.

I would have made guys work for it, not given it away freely... More >>

Tags: Behavior, Gratitude, Sex, Values
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