Facing Fear*
As a parent, I've changed so much since my first child was born. She never watched television until after she was two years old. She didn't have her first potato chip until after she was two and she said, "Water" whenever she saw a McDonald's sign because that was all she had ever had there. When Child 2 came along, I told the pediatrician, "I've done everything wrong with this one." "No," he answered. "You did what you had to do to survive!" I really love our pediatrician. When we moved into this house a year ago, the kids started having real problems sleeping through the night--or even falling asleep--because they were accustomed to our bedroom being right down the hall from theirs. Now, our room is on the other side of the house. I became even more protective of what I considered their "sensitive" natures. Recently, I discovered BBC's Desert Island Disc s podcasts. This radio program has be...