Monthly Archives: July 2010

Reality Check Radio Show 7/24/10

Video clips from Reality Check Radio Show 7/24/10 – School Board Race for District 5 – Candidates Forum Hosted by Larry Lawton with candidates Andy Ziegler and Dean Paterakis. Listen to the full radio broadcast any time at: http://www.realitycheckradio.org/show/politics-is-in-the-air/

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Sunday update – Various topics – I’m all over the place LOL

Good morning everyone.  I wanted to thank everyone for all the phone calls, posts and comments on the wide range of topics I write on.   Keep them coming.  In the past week, I was published in a Parenting magazine and it was a great piece.  I believe in communications and that is what it was [...] Read the Rest…

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Hometown News Reports on Golf Outing

Golf outing provides confidence, positive experience for youth      Reality Check Golf Outing – In The News Not a scared straight program

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Parenting Teens

I just wrote an article for Positively Parenting Magazine.  Here is the title of the article,  “Got Teenagers? Parenting 101 (from ages 11 through 17)”  Check it out and you will understand where I am coming from.  It is all about communications.  The reason the Reality Check Program works so well is because of the way [...] Read the Rest…

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Candidates Forum Hosted by Larry Lawton

 Don’t miss tomorrows Reality Check Radio show at 8am – 9am.  It will be a Candidates Forum Hosted by Larry Lawton with Andy Ziegler (Andy’s Bio) and Dean Paterakis ( Dean’s Bio) . A “Q & A” for the candidates with questions submitted from the public, don’t miss it!!!   School Board Race for District 5

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Man charged with sexually molesting teen in Melbourne

Man Charged with sexually molesting teen in Melbourne  I just read this article and it sickens me.  I am all for due-process and all that.  Here is what bothers me.  This 30 year old man admitted to at the very least going in the room and seeing this 15 year old teen naked.  He should [...] Read the Rest…

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Most arrested juveniles have drugs in system

Most arrested juveniles have drugs in system  That was the headline of a great article.  Read it, you might learn something.  It is so true.  We need prevention and education.  Not incarceration.  I say this all the time, “I don’t believe in bad kids, I believe in bad choices.”  The numbers in the article didn’t surprise [...] Read the Rest…

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Autistic man in need of help, not prosecution.

I read an article in the Florida Today this morning about a 20 year old man arrested on a drug charge.  He is clearly Autistic.  When the reporter was following this young man around the court house he was holding his mothers hand.  When asked the reason for his arrest, he said:

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School Administration Grade a “D”

I was reading in the Florida Today paper today where the school board gave superintendent Binggeli good grades.  What a bunch of bullshit bureaucracy.  I hear from teachers every day that he is NOT accessible as they say, I know for a fact he is

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Scared Straight

Does my child need a scared straight program?  Maybe not, maybe they need a Reality Check! Reality Check DVD – Free Preview – Click Here , the Reality Check Program DVD has a proven success rate in changing the way teens think about choices. Be proactive and act now to help your teen or young [...] Read the Rest…

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