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...explicitly to kids well before they reach dating age, teaching them that all violence is unacceptable and to demand respect in their friendships. Parents should know their teens' friends and encourage going out in groups. If they suspect a problem, parents should try to find someone--a counselor or adult friend--their girls will talk to. And, notes Silverman, "we can't accept that boys will be boys. We need to intervene with boys, to hold them accountable for what they are doing...
When we grant our children their every whim, we fail to equip them to handle the hardships, disappointments and struggles of adult life. And to treat youngsters as full-fledged adults from the age of two is to rob them of a true childhood experience, which is essential in producing a well-adjusted adult. ROBERT KOLINSKI Hamtramck, Mich...
...permanent or destructive. (You decide whether painting the room black meets those criteria.) If that doesn't work, author Faull advises, back off. "There is so much for teens to rebel about--their bedroom is not a battle you want to be engaged in," says Faull, who has two adult children living on their own and a teenage boy at home. When she goes into her son's room to remove hazardous waste, she looks beyond the chaos to marvel at his skillful setup of lighting and sound equipment...
Love That Dog, for older children, is appealing to adult readers as well. Jack, a reluctant student, resists poetry assignments from his teacher, Miss Stretchberry. "I don't want to because boys don't write poetry," he pouts. But slowly Jack comes to savor poems, through the subtle persuasion of Miss Stretchberry, who is never heard from or described on the page. Through poetry, Jack comes to grips with the death of his beloved yellow dog, Sky: "He was such a funny dog/that dog Sky/that straggly furry smiling dog Sky." The book, deceptively simple and never preachy, is studded with...
...evidence continues to mount that you don't have to run marathons or lose all the weight you've gained since college to have a positive effect on your health. Consider diabetes. In recent years the U.S. has seen an alarming upswing in the incidence of Type 2 (or adult-onset) diabetes. But now it turns out that those prone to this life-endangering disease can cut their risk by more than half if they make modest changes in diet and exercise, according to a study released last week by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases...