When you teach through puppets you are giving children something to remember the story with. A milk carton, for example, can be used as a puppet. When a child sees a milk carton, it triggers something, and they will remember the story and the value behind it.

Let me give you an example, ... I worked at a television station in Minneapolis back in the 1980s and part of the 1990s. During our first years there, our two boys got in fights at school. You know what caused it? Some of the kids assumed that if we were from the South, we were members of the (Ku Klux) Klan.

For example, the health department negotiated with the main agricultural employers to provide healthy lunches and paid time off for workers to attend a wellness program.

It is not a profanity-laden book. This is not a children's book, and we're not giving it to children. This is for high school students.

We're providing services to children, giving opportunities to families, and providing staff development.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.