Word: parent
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Proud Parent: Some beaming mom or pop settles in next to me and immediately begins to chatter away. Before long, I must answer scores of questions on my SAT scores, my social life and "exactly how I got into Harvard." I then must endure scores of detailed stories about their little pumpkins...
...Last June he sold the Star, a supermarket tabloid that he launched in 1974 at a cost of $12 million, for $400 million in cash and preferred stocks from the parent of the rival National Enquirer. He is retooling other properties, including his costliest, TV Guide, for which he paid nearly $3 billion in 1988. Since then, circulation has dropped 7%, to 15.8 million, and ad pages have dwindled...
Then I learned that blue squares opposed pink triangles. Are we now going to be besieged by posters of soft pornography right before parent's weekend, I wondered? How exciting! But, to my intense disappointment, this was not going to be. "Imagine what else I could have learned!" No, we were instead deluged by text from a group with the most annoying acronym in modern history...
...mother's stories planted the seed. Yet she was illiterate. So you cannot tell me that a parent must be educated in order to impress this upon a child. A parent who is aware of his or her responsibility will do everything to insure that the child will at least have a fighting chance...
...will these marginalized kids turn out? Experts caution that it is difficult to generalize, but a study by the American Academy of Pediatrics describes some pitfalls. Children from single-parent homes face an array of risks, ranging from mild cognitive delays in preschoolers to withdrawal and depression in older kids. Children pressured by aggressive scheduling often show signs of chronic stress. "With the amount of anxiety and juggling," suggests San Francisco clinical psychologist Jeree Pawl, there is a risk that the next generation could grow up "thinking that they're nuisances. An unhandy bundle, a shelf for which...