Have you ever wondered what ever happened to some of your favorite cartoons and episodes of sitcoms that kept you company while growing up? I grew up as a "Latch Key Child". If you are not familiar with the term it means a child who is responsible for letting them selves in and out of their home going to and coming from school while their parents often worked long hours. I emigrated to the U.S. from Guyana which is located in South America at the age of five. At the age of six I started the latch key experience which included my best friend and baby sitter, the television. It served a purpose and carved out an indellible mark in my mind. It entertained me and cultivated my ability to communicate and to create. Now at the age of 41, television serves a different purpose in my life and that is keeping me informed as to the weather and the satisfaction of my frequent cravings as a news and political junkie.

As a former broadcast journalist and talk show producer, I thoroughly understand the influence and power of television, especially in the eyes and minds of young people. At the age of six my mother could trust me to watch television due to the subject matter addressed in the early and mid 70's. Today a single parent would need to be very cautious about loosening the reign on what their child can watch without adult supervision. Even the content of cartoons are much more sophisticated than Felix the Cat, Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch was back then. As adults we should try to read the news and commentary in detail as printed in news magazines and other periodicals as opposed to drawing our conclusions from the sexy clips and sound bites used as ratings bait on television. We should also encourage our children to create their own short stories based on some of the subject matter they see on TV.

This will foster more creativity and independent thinking on their behalf. This will result in them thinking more independently of their peers when the flow of peer pressure goes against what you've tried so hard to instill in them. I purchased writing tablets for my kids and their weekly assignment is to maintain a journal as well as notes that we write back and forth to each other. They get to see how their dad expresses himself about different subjects on paper directly to them. They tend to enjoy looking back over their thoughts from the previous months. Your children and significant other would feel a greater sense of gratification spending more time being entertained by educated by each other on what you've read independently than the routine two to four hours of television the average American watches every evening. In our current economy each dollar has to travel a greater distance than it did two years ago to meet the next dollar. This is a great opportunity for us to discover our loved ones all over again.

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What are some of the ailments that conventional medicine ignores that you deal with daily?

For the adult population, I see chronic fatigue syndrome, Fibromyalgia, chronic Lyme, inflammatory gastrointestinal syndromes, like ulcerative colitis, irritable bowel syndrome, chrones disease. For children, I see a lot of children with autism, ADHD,ADD, etc.