Ken Potts
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Discuss, don’t lecture, when it comes to teens and sexSep 09, 2011 12:00 am - Six out of every 10 teenagers will engage in premarital intercourse before they graduate from high school, according to a newspaper article I just read. Something like t...
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Everyone benefits when old, young come togetherSep 07, 2011 3:38 am - I recently had a chance to attend a meeting of community organizations that bring together senior citizens and school-age children for a variety of activities and projec...
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Everyone benefits when old and young get togetherSep 02, 2011 12:00 am - I recently had a chance to attend a meeting of community organizations that bring together senior citizens and school-age children for a variety of activities and projec...
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Self-esteem must be grounded in self-worthAug 28, 2011 12:00 am - Can we really solve all of society’s ills with just more self-esteem? Sometimes I think that’s what some of us believe. As I read the books, magazine articles and profe...
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Seek humility, or it will find youAug 19, 2011 12:00 am - It was a warm fall day. Between meetings, I found myself walking down Michigan Avenue. It was lunch time; the sidewalks were packed with office workers, conventioneers, ...
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Potts: Healthy sexual expression is essential to marriageAug 12, 2011 12:00 am - America is one of the most sexually charged cultures in the world. Americans are among the most sexually ignorant people in the world. Sexual problems are among the mo...
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Saying 'thank you' can be a tricky businessAug 05, 2011 12:00 am - There was this traveling salesman. One day, while driving past a pig farm, he was startled to see a particularly large pig walking around on a well-fitted wooden leg. T...
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Family harmony a factor in children's learningAug 01, 2011 1:00 am - John seemed to be an average eighth-grader until the last few months of the school year. He began having problems — he was inattentive in class, often forgot homework as...
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Lyrics from our favorite songs may have given poor love adviceJul 21, 2011 12:00 am - I think I’ve finally found my ticket to fame and fortune. If I can just expand this column into a paperback, I can do the talk show circuit and “60 Minutes,” maybe even...
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Being engaged is hard, but there’s hopeJul 15, 2011 12:00 am - What makes being engaged so tough? A couple are perfectly happy and starry-eyed in love — the epitome of compatibility. Then CRASH! They wipe out in the final turn just ...