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18 Nov 2015

Focus On Your Kid’s Happiness

The question of the day: Are parents trying too hard to make their kids happy? Today, it seems that parenting is creating more stress than happiness. Our kids’ lives are over-scheduled, more complicated and more scripted than ever before. “Parents need to be able to slow down and to stop worrying about every single thing,” says Katie Hurley, a licensed clinical social worker and author of The Happy Kid Handbook. In this special edition of PJTV, Hurley tells host Stephen Kruiser how to focus on your child’s individual happiness, instead of what everyone else is doing.

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15 Jul 2014

Beck to Help the Children

Glenn Beck is heading south for the summer. At the risk of harming his career, the controversial political commentator on The Blaze Network is trekking to the Mexico-U.S. border to literally lend a hand to the thousands of illegal immigrant children who have streamed across into our backyards. “Through no fault of their own they are caught in political crossfire,” Beck says. “And while we continue to put pressure on Washington and change its course of lawlessness, we must also help.” More from BlazeTV.

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06 May 2014

Foxworthy On Raising Kids

Jeff Foxworthy takes a break from the Blue Collar Comedy Tour to discuss the differences between raising kids when he was young to raising kids today. Buckle in for another encore performance by the king of redneck comedy. And come on back to LOL next Tuesday for another taste of the lighter side of life. — The Wickel

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22 Jul 2013

Girl Rejects Forced Marriage

Nada Al-Ahdal, an 11-year-old Yemeni girl, has fled from her family, rather than go through with a forced marriage. Here, she explains her flight to freedom and why she rejects the fate her family sought to impose upon her.

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04 May 2013

Britain’s Perve Parade

“It’s a Knockout” host Stuart Hall is about to join Jimmy Savile and a handful of other celebrities that have managed to ruin our childhood.

Hall, a veteran BBC broadcaster has pleaded guilty to sexual assaulting 13 girls between the ages of nine to 17 over a period of 18 years. One victim told reporters she finally found the strength to come forward after the Jimmy Savile scandal broke. The woman, who is going by the name Amy to keep her privacy intact, believes Hall should, “die behind bars.”  H/T Next Media Animation

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15 Apr 2013

Japan’s Baby Drain

Japan’s plummeting birth rates are leading to empty classrooms and a bleak prognosis for the future: Not enough workers to look after the increasingly elderly population. Adrian Brown from Australia’s SBS Dateline reports.

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15 Apr 2013

Feds Coming for Your Children

AlfonZo Rachel unleashes a blistering attack on MSNBC commentator Melissa Harris-Perry. Harris-Perry thinks that children are a governmental, and not a parental responsibility. Is she right? Find out on this ZoNation. H/T PJTV

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11 Apr 2013

Have Bully Baiters Gone Too Far

“I’m not saying they shouldn’t have consequences but these laws often reach down to a child of age six, five. I mean it’s incredible,” says Susan Porter, author of Bully Nation: Why America’s Approach to Childhood Aggression is Bad for Everyone.

Porter sat down with ReasonTV’s Tracy Oppenheimer to discuss the anti-bully movement and how laws, labeling and the media are only agitating the problem. She says that kids are actually suffering because of these anti-bully efforts.

“They are becoming less resilient,” says Porter, “if you’re now a victim, and you think of yourself as a victim, you are much more apt to get victimized.”

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07 Mar 2013

Don’t Yuck My Yum

Ze Frank shares his childhood passion for collecting stickers, a hobby he enjoyed without any misgivings or second thoughts until an uncle yucked his yum.

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15 Dec 2012

How Children Handle Trauma

Dr. John Walkup, director of child and adolescent psychiatry at New York Presbyterian Hospital, discusses how children may be dealing with traumatic events such as the school shooting in Connecticut. H/T Wall Street Journal

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