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...living with a toddler tough, I realized that she was probably too young even to know what she was saying. So I decided to call an expert for advice. "How old did you say this baby is?" asked James O'Connor, author of a new book called Cuss Control: The Complete Book on How to Curb Your Cursing (Three Rivers; $12.95), which went on sale last week. Parents who came of age in the '60s and '70s, he said, "decided to do what we wanted and say what we wanted. So today our children are swearing more and swearing younger...
...have to do is behave in a mature way and not lose control in front of your children? That might work for a family like Segal's, where all the children had gone to bed nicely by 8:30 p.m. the other night, when I phoned her. But considering the circumstances in my household--I overheard my husband telling Clementine that "words are like colors and swear words are fluorescent, so save them for when you want to make a big impression"--I cling to another bit of insight from Segal: "By the time children are six, they know what...
Boarding fees are $35 a night; training costs vary. It's worth every penny, according to Al and Denise Lyons, whose yellow Labrador Rosie had been a serial nipper. After Canyon View, Al says, "we had a pet who was under control." During peak vacation months, it's wise to reserve three months ahead, says comedian Sinbad, who boards his two pugs and a mixed breed there. "It's like getting your kid into a private school." (Telephone...
After her son was killed, Carole Price was stunned to learn that in Maryland it was only a misdemeanor to leave a loaded gun accessible to a child. She started attending gun-control rallies and was host at meetings in her home. After she showed up with a TV news crew at a local Republican fund raiser that was raffling off a 9-mm handgun, Price gained the attention of other local media and legislators...
Since November, Carol Price has been an organizer of the Million Mom March on behalf of "commonsense" gun control, scheduled for Mother's Day on the Mall in Washington. Donna Dees Thomases, the New Jersey publicist and mother of two who launched plans for the march, says that Price's public anguish speaks for thousands of families branded by gun violence--and furious at legislative inaction...