Golden Valley Health Center

Seven Secrets to Raising a Happy and Healthy Child to is a timeless collection of wisdom that is nurturing to both the child and the caregiver. It's a heartfelt eye-opener based on the 5,000-year-old preventive health-care system from ancient India -- Ayurveda -- the science of life. In this first book on the mind/body approach to pregnancy and parenting, Joyce Golden Seyburn guides her readers through simple practices to be performed from conception through childhood that include centering mom while calming the baby, baby massage, and determining the baby's mind/body type (Dosha in Sanskrit) after birth. This book has no age boundaries and can easily be applied to any age child. The author reminds her readers of the simple, ancient Ayurvedic truth: that if a parent is happy, then the child will be happy. Ms. Seyburn writes: "In these mega electronic, digital, laser, and cyber times, we need to go back to fundamental values and practices that ensure preventive health and stability in the changing times ahead." She goes on to say, "After all, a mother's happiness during pregnancy is a baby's most vital nourishment." Seven Secrets to Raising a Happy and Healthy Child prepares parents for the journey of nurturing their child by giving them simple tools to use along the way.

It is no coincidence that the garment industry gained a foothold in Pennsylvania's hard-coal region as mines were closing or reducing operations. "Runaway" factories, especially ones from Manhattan, set up shop in mining towns where labor was plentiful and unions scarce. By the 1930s garment factories employed thousands of wives and daughters of unemployed or underemployed coal miners in the Wyoming Valley, but organizing workers would prove difficult for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU). Fighting for the Union Label tells the story of how workers in the Wyoming Valley, led by Min Lurye Matheson and her husband, Bill, banded together and built one of the largest and most activist movements of garment workers in the ILGWU's vast network. Workers' education, political activism, a health care center, and a widely recognized chorus were among the union's trademarks. Despite the union's influence, however, the apparel industry migrated to the American South and then overseas in the 1970s and 1980s. Tens of thousands of workers throughout the state and nation would lose their jobs, and sweatshops would become part of the economic landscape in countries like Guatemala. The first major work on the garment industry and its workers in Pennsylvania, Fighting for the Union Label draws extensively upon the Wyoming Valley Oral History Project (co-directed by Ken and Robert Wolensky), which has collected the reminiscences of more than 325 workers, factory owners, public officials, and others. The story of the dynamic Min Matheson and the rise and fall of the garment industry provides key insights into the deindustrialization of northeastern Pennsylvania.