by HomeOfEighT8 | Oct 28, 2011 | Advice, Health, Parenting
During the summer of 1996, when I was 11, I became drastically sick with lupus. I was admitted to Children’s Hospital Boston and put on high doses of steroids, which made my face puffy and round and made me gain 80 pounds. Despite frequent hospitalizations, the...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Oct 28, 2011 | Advice, Parenting
Try riding the bus to high school while lugging a bag of heavy textbooks, plus a 3-month-old infant, complete with a day’s worth of baby gear. It will make you strong. While my peers were joking around and having fun on the morning commute, I was–at age 17–suffering...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Oct 28, 2011 | Health, Parenting, Resources
Every year millions of kids deliberately cut their own skin, desperately looking for relief from overwhelming stress, anxiety and insecurity. Learn what’s behind the self-injury problem and how parents can stop the pain. Caia Pattynama hesitated the first time...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Oct 4, 2011 | Advice, Parenting, Resources
Duane Sergeant and Easter Johnson feel trapped. For nearly a year-and-a-half, the young teen couple has shared a single room and a double bed with their two small children in the Jackson Avenue Family Residences, a homeless shelter in the South Bronx....
