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...overstuffed chairs and mellow Norah Jones soundtrack to the TF meetings and uncomfortably-attached couples in Starbucks. You—with your lack of seating, loud-noise rock, and homeless clientele—are the perfect wingman for the charitable, yet brief, grabbing of coffee with the awkward kid from section. I don’t want the yuppie strollers and biodegradable footprint-patterned carafes of Peet’s—give me plain cups and the cacophony of the Square any day. I skip the Mather shuttle so I can visit you on my walk to the Yard?...
...more people around them to give them the best possible chance in life. And in a selfish way, it's nice to be one of four parents because we have more freedom," says Bedos. For Louise, that means a childhood that appears as fractured as the life of any kid caught in a custody dispute. She sees her fathers two days a week and splits vacation time between households. However, the four parents always manage to take some holiday together and, says Rajzman, the girl is being brought up to view her family arrangement as perfectly normal. "We teach...
Then, of course, there's the money. Like a growing number of poker-playing kids, Jeff got heavily involved in Internet gambling when he went to college. Online poker, with the potential to play many tables at once and the possibility of quickly losing your entire year's tuition in a torrent of bad-luck bits and bytes, can cut both ways. It provides the same emphasis on logic and calculation but lacks the social controls of face-to-face games with friends. It can swallow players up, as in the infamous case of the Lehigh University student who robbed...
...your kid at risk? Here are some good web resources to help you find...
...most kid-friendly site is thegamble.org, set up by the state of Louisiana to teach adolescents about the risks of gambling. The site features interactive cartoons, games (of skill, of course, not chance), and a self-quiz for adolescents to find out whether they are at risk of developng a problem. The quiz can be accessed directly here...