What Motivates Female Sex Offenders? Michelle Golland: Sexual abuse by females, while not as common and definitely underreported as abuse by males, does occur.
Marlee Matlin, while on CNN's "Larry King Live" Monday, spoke about her own experience of sexual abuse at the hands of her female babysitter when she was just 11 years old. It appears, if the allegations are true, that part of the motive in the death of Sandra Cantu was that her killer, Melissa Huckaby, was sexually abusing her and may have killed her in the course of or in an attempt to hide the abuse. A 2007 report by the Center for Sex Offender Management says that one half of sex offender therapy programs provide services to females.
Approximately 3,800 adult women and 2,700 adolescent girl offenders were receiving sex offender therapy services in 2007 -- a number that's nearly twice the number of those served in these programs two years prior. 4 to 8% of reported cases of sex abuse were perpetrated by women. Slow To React. Why I Am No Longer Christian – Walking Away From the Church. The Sit Down – An Alternative Approach to Blowing Up. Thank you for joining me in some collaborative parenting discussion.
When today’s parents were kids or when our parents were kids children might have been told occasionally to sit down and shut up. The idea that children are to be seen and not heard is one that still creeps into families even when parents try their hardest to respect their children. There may also be a tendency on the adult’s part to say things we’d later regret, take actions that are not in line with our values, or in some other way blow up. Here’s a new and refreshing look at the idea of sitting down (and blowing up).
Your children will love it (or at least it will be a new twist and they’ll be pleasantly surprised). Matthew Vines, The Gay Debate: The Bible and Homosexuality. Positive Parents: Six Positive Strategies To Reduce and Avoid Whining. - Guest post by Ariadne, a.k.a. mudpiemama. Does hearing your child whine annoy you or stress you out?
Is it the pitch or the intensity or the timing of the whine that just makes you want to have a magic switch to turn it off? Rest assured, you are not alone in these feelings. Finger knitting. We just wanted to share a new little skill that N developed at waldorf kindergarten a couple weeks ago. it’s what she’s calling “fish knitting” — mostly because of the little ditty she says while doing it, though it’s actually a start to finger knitting. i’ll let N explain it to you in this brief video clip.
(you may need to turn up your sound – this is a rare time when N is talking quietly the part that isn’t shown in the video is that you begin by tying a little loop at the end of your yarn, which becomes the first “pond.” N will soon learn more involved finger knitting at waldorf school, and i cannot wait to learn it from her when she does! As you might imagine, we have a lot of homemade jump ropes circulating around the house right now. Easy play dough recipe. By Cathy James on March 19th, 2012 ** Love play dough?
Get your copy of The Homemade Play Dough Recipe Book! ** Nurturestore has lots of articles about fun play dough ideas but I though today I’d get back to basics with an easy play dough recipe master class. The Yoga Poses Said to Help Your Kid (and You) Sleep Better. I would try anything to get my kids to sleep.
Well, anything legal and sensible. Clearly, many parents feel like I do. The Dark Side of Kony 2012: Look in the Mirror. Brown Rot on Peach and Other Stone Fruits. Brown rot is one of the most destructive diseases of peach and nectarine in Virginia, and also occurs on other stone fruits such as apricot, cherry, and plum.
When environmental conditions favor this disease, crop loss can be devastating. Symptoms Although brown rot damage in Virginia is typically observed on fruit (Figure 1), the fungus may also infect blossoms and shoots. Growing potatoes in just hay? - Organic Gardening Forum. Growing Potatoes in Straw. By Steve Healy, Colorado State University Cooperative Extension Master Gardener, Denver County Even a couch potato can grow a good potato crop with very little effort.
By using straw and a little soil preparation up front, it's easy to grow an admirable crop in a limited space. Moose Tubers additional info. Growing Potatoes Upon ArrivalInspect your order as soon as it arrives.
If you are not going to plant within two weeks, store seed in a dark cool (around 40°) fairly humid place. Do not remove growing sprouts; these are your new plants. Chitting or Green SproutingYou may use chitting to encourage early growth, speed development of marketable tubers, and perhaps increase yields. Warm tubers to 65° in the dark for about two weeks, then spread them out with most of the eyes facing up in a warm place (60–70°) with medium light intensity for about two weeks. Soil PreparationPotatoes grow in any well-drained fertile soil.
Cutting SeedSmall tubers planted whole are less sensitive to seed piece decay than cut pieces. PlantingPlant when the soil is 55–60° and dry enough to work easily, about when dandelions bloom. Cultivation and HillingCultivate shallowly as needed during early growth. GrowingPotatoes.pdf (application/pdf Object) Amend soil with rock phosphate. April 28, 2002|By Dennis Bishop | Dennis Bishop,Special to the Sun Q.
We are planting asparagus in our community garden plot and it was recommended that we incorporate rock phosphate into the soil before planting. What is rock phosphate? A. Phosphate rock or rock phosphate is highly recommended by organic growers. It also contains a number of trace elements important to plants. Q. A. Most of them have bands of deep red and green coloring on the leaves. How to Grow Asparagus. If you love asparagus and want to grow some yourself, waste no time in getting started. Even with the best of care, an asparagus bed won't hit its stride for several years. But once that happens, the bed will produce an abundant crop of spears spring after spring for at least the next 20 to 30 years.
In the old days, gardeners were told to prepare an asparagus bed by digging an 18" deep trench and then backfilling it with a mix of compost and soil. Asparagus and organic maintenance - Organic Gardening Forum. <b>Grow Asparagus—The Perennial Vegetable! </b> Vegetable Seed Viability. Vegetable Garden Planner — Design Your Best Garden Ever. Kansas Interactive USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map. Kansas Interactive Drought Conditions Map. Market gardening success step-by-step. Plan your market garden for continuous harvest. One of the keys to market gardening success is to plan your market garden to yield a continuous harvest of vegetables. You need to know when you can start selling, and how long you can expect your garden to produce. Here's the factors to consider when developing your market garden plan.
Plan your market garden step 1: your growing season. Or perhaps more specifically your harvest season. Succession Cropping. Gardening Forum / Rotation, companion and succession planting plan. Landshare Colorado — Connecting people who want to grow food, to land to grow it on. Succession Planting Planner. Thank you for visiting Little House in the Suburbs. Please subscribe and you'll get great simple living tips and how-to articles delivered to your inbox, for free!
SUCCESSION PLANTING is the term gardeners use to refer to planting something else in place when a previous crop is all finished. To pull this off effectively, you need a few things: 1. A diagram of your garden with zones marked off and numbered/lettered/named for old boyfriends, whatever…The one above is of four of my beds 4×4 each–entirely one veggie for the first three and 2×2 blocks of different veggies in the last one. 2. 3. If you want to print the pdf and fill it out by hand, click here.If you want to download my Excel spreadsheet and type/customize it, click here. MF2508.pdf (application/pdf Object) MT198365AG.pdf (application/pdf Object) How to Grow Asparagus. July 31st, 2008 Email. Organicasparagus.pdf (application/pdf Object) Growing Asparagus In The Home Garden. Growing Asparagus In The Home Garden, HYG-1603-94. Alternative Soil Amendments. Sources of Organic Fertilizers and Amendments Search Results: ATTRA - National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service.
Eco-Nutrients, Inc. - Fresh, nutrient rich organic fertilizers for any type of soil. Bladder Infections. Inc. - SEA-90: Soil, Crop and Livestock Nutrients from the Sea. Greenhouse Recordkeeping & Crop Planning by Adam Montri.