(AP) The final original episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" will air May 25. Winfrey's Chicago-based Harpo Productions confirmed the date Friday. Winfrey announced live on the show in November 2009 that she would end its run after 25 years. She since has launched cable's Oprah Winfrey Network.
"The Oprah Winfrey Show" has been in reruns for the last few weeks. But Winfrey tweeted Thursday that she was "hard at work planning the final shows" and new episodes would begin April 7.
The final episode brings an end to what has been television's top-rated talk show for more than two decades.
It airs in 145 countries worldwide.
*WOW! Oprah is really leaving! It doesn't seem like it's suppose to be that way. However, she's moving on to way bigger and way better things such as with her network (OWN). We will definitely miss her a lot! This lady has truly done phenomenal things and will continue to do so. WE LOVE YOU OPRAH!
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Saturday, March 26, 2011
Study Highlights How Moms' Depression, Anger Stresses Kids!
(HealthDay News) -- Even very young children can get stressed by depressed parents who display negative emotions toward them, researchers confirm.
The new study included 3-year-old children who were subjected to different harmless, but stress-inducing, situations, such as causing them to become slightly nervous or frustrated. After each stressful event, saliva samples were taken from the children to measure levels of the stress hormone cortisol.
The researchers also observed the interaction between children and their parents -- usually the mother -- as they did a task together or as the parent read a book to the child.
The largest stress responses were seen in children whose mothers had been depressed at some point in the child's life and whose mothers also displayed hostility -- frustration, anger, annoyance or critical comments -- when playing with their children.
There weren't enough fathers in the study to offer a sense of how they interact with children, and depression was less common among fathers, said Lea Dougherty, of the University of Maryland, and colleagues at Stony Brook University.
Stress is a risk factor for depression. These findings suggest one way that a parent's depression can lead to depression in a child, the study authors explained.
The report is slated for publication in an upcoming print issue of the journal Psychological Science.
The findings are "actually quite hopeful, because, if we focus on the parenting, we could really intervene early and help parents with chronic depression when they have kids," Dougherty said in a news release from the Association for Psychological Science.
More information
The Nemours Foundation has more about childhood stress.
*This is very interesting as more and more women become single mothers. Being a single parent in these times isn't a joke, it's serious, especially if the mother has more than one child. As times progress, and less and less fathers stick around, you will see more mother's depressed, stressed and filled with frustration. Parenting in this society seems to get a bad rap, especially if your single. It's like people think your incapable or just don't know what the hell your doing.
I say; most single mothers do what they need to do, even if they do get a little frustrated. At least they aren't like the dead beat dads that just get up and go and never return.
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The new study included 3-year-old children who were subjected to different harmless, but stress-inducing, situations, such as causing them to become slightly nervous or frustrated. After each stressful event, saliva samples were taken from the children to measure levels of the stress hormone cortisol.
The researchers also observed the interaction between children and their parents -- usually the mother -- as they did a task together or as the parent read a book to the child.
The largest stress responses were seen in children whose mothers had been depressed at some point in the child's life and whose mothers also displayed hostility -- frustration, anger, annoyance or critical comments -- when playing with their children.
There weren't enough fathers in the study to offer a sense of how they interact with children, and depression was less common among fathers, said Lea Dougherty, of the University of Maryland, and colleagues at Stony Brook University.
Stress is a risk factor for depression. These findings suggest one way that a parent's depression can lead to depression in a child, the study authors explained.
The report is slated for publication in an upcoming print issue of the journal Psychological Science.
The findings are "actually quite hopeful, because, if we focus on the parenting, we could really intervene early and help parents with chronic depression when they have kids," Dougherty said in a news release from the Association for Psychological Science.
More information
The Nemours Foundation has more about childhood stress.
*This is very interesting as more and more women become single mothers. Being a single parent in these times isn't a joke, it's serious, especially if the mother has more than one child. As times progress, and less and less fathers stick around, you will see more mother's depressed, stressed and filled with frustration. Parenting in this society seems to get a bad rap, especially if your single. It's like people think your incapable or just don't know what the hell your doing.
I say; most single mothers do what they need to do, even if they do get a little frustrated. At least they aren't like the dead beat dads that just get up and go and never return.
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