MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'best friends'. Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:23:31 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3676859&cid=t_209035_136_f&fid=37852&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdonnatrussell.com%2F2010%2F06%2F18%2Fbest-friend-ban-what-a-lousy-orwellian-way-to-rear-children%2F My new post on Politics Daily / Woman Up. Best Friend Ban? What a Lousy, Orwellian Way to Rear Children. Hey there, helicopter parents and minions in schools, camps and extra-circular activities: Nineteen Eighty-Four called. It wants its fascism back. Cartoon by Robert Trussell © 2010 We here at Woman Up are weighing in on the New York Times story, “A Best Friend? You Must Be Kidding,” and the responses of readers, which are close to unanimous in contempt for the notion that best friends are bad for kids. Starting with a Facebook friend of mine who wrote: “For a minute, I thought this was an Onion article.” (The Onion is a satiric site of fictional news.) In one corner, we have administrators. They claim the best friend paradigm smacks of exclusivity and cliques, w... Donna Trussell blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3676859 Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:07:11 +0100 3676859 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3671650&cid=t_209035_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fno-more-best-friends-teachers-are-discouraging-children-from-forming-exclusive-friendships%2F Some prefer diamonds, but many of us grew up thinking that best friends were a girl’s best friend. And even if we live in different countries or lead completely different lives, many of us still have that childhood bestie that we still keep in touch with, who still holds the other half of our broken heart necklace. But according to an article in The New York Times, some teachers are starting to discourage children from forming the B.F.F. bond. Despite the natural inclination of children to find a single best friend, they feel that it’s healthier for children to form friendships within a larger group, rather than in exclusive pairs. These days, we know a lot of kids with contact lists longer than ours in their iPhones, and more friends on Facebook than we have in real life, but ... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3671650 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:05:25 +0100 3671650 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1909356&cid=t_209035_177_f&fid=38134&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbabybound.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F10%2F22%2Flife%2F One of my high school best friends died.  I am in a weird place about it.  I’m incredibly sad.  Really can’t believe it.  I just found out and I am still processing it, but going back and forth between sadness and guilt. We had sleepovers every weekend.  We did Ouija boards in the closet and got super scared when we thought we were talking to a real ghost, who told us who each of us would be going to prom with, and was wrong on all counts.  We lied to our parents, went to parties, and slept in cars because we had no house to go home to - since we were sleeping at each other’s houses of course.  We ditched school, spent way too much time shopping or at the beach, dated the same boys - er, I stole her boyfriend and dated him for 2 years?  We spent every Friday night... B a b y B o u n d blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1909356 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:18:30 +0100 1909356