Your child hits a younger brother or sister or a playmate and, as a parent, you respond automatically. You smack the kid, with the admonishment, I told you not to hit. Out of 10 ways to discipline a child, this is the least effective, said therapist Connie Harrell. When they get older and bigger than you, you ve just l
She prefers not to have her name published. Let s call her Betty. Her situation is traumatic, but not tragic -- yet. Eighteen months ago Betty tested positive for the HIV virus, which causes AIDS. Her husband has also tested positive. So has their 16-month-old daughter. Betty and her husband used intravenous drugs. Six
WEST PALM BEACH - The avenue of hope is all the more remarkable for its place amid the grime and dark storefronts of a neighborhood struggling to elude despair. Here, among the cheap motels and broken sidewalks of Broadway, where harsh daylight contrasts with a seedy darkness that lingers and intimidates, Palm Beach Co