Monday, December 26, 2011

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Sex Education at BPC



Here's a NY Times article about sex education that folks are talking about.

and here's a short video about Ivy Chen, Bay Area Sex Educator

Ivy will be offering a must-see Parent Ed evening at BPC Wed, Jan 11th
and Upper School Puberty Education the following week.

Saturday, December 10, 2011

The Generous Marriage


The Generous Marriage

From tribesmen to billionaire philanthropists, the social value of generosity is already well known. But new research suggests it also matters much more intimately than we imagined, even down to our most personal relationships.

Researchers from the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project recently studied the role of generosity in the marriages of 2,870 men and women. Generosity was defined as “the virtue of giving good things to one’s spouse freely and abundantly” — like simply making them coffee in the morning — and researchers quizzed men and women on how often they behaved generously toward their partners. How often did they express affection? How willing were they to forgive?
<read article on NYTimes.com>