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Apologies and rationales for marijuana are often ingenious, sometimes fervent, and in their essence, when applied to marijuana use by adolescents, dangerously wrong. The stage of development through which a child passes from ages 12 to 18 is critical. Adolescence is the labor that gives birth to the adult. It is a painful, indispensable process. Adolescence quite precisely requires the pain and difficulty of learning in order to come out well. Among the lessons, of course, are how to love and support others and how to be responsible...
...normally. Let's say you smoked marijuana heavily from age 16 to 26, then stopped. The way you process life events emotionally after that may be more like a 16-year-old." Could it be that the famous reluctance of the baby boomer to imagine himself as an adult has something to do with the weed he smoked when young...
...many a soccer game whose rules I only dimly grasped, and was, immodestly speaking, one favorite carpool mom, but I never became my daughter's friend. It's tempting to do so when your offspring is crossing over from the things of a child to the things of an adult. I ruled out exchanging any confidences in the crossover areas of drugs, drink and sex, although a parent should counsel a child not to have any of the latter until true intimacy attaches or at age 25, whichever comes later...
...buzz CAROLINE JONES, Computer Life: "Goosebumps is amazing. It has incredible 3-D graphics that are comparable to those you see in adult games, like the haunted-house scene where you can go right up to the door and open things up inside. It also has arcade games...
...significantly improve a child's potential that the services the child requires are greatly reduced as he progresses through school. The true expense of special education can be measured only by looking at the long-term costs of caring for a special-needs child once he becomes an adult. Institutionalization for an autistic person is a far greater expense than the provision of the costly but effective home-based behavior-modification programs so many families are demanding that their school districts provide. NANCY DALE FELLMETH Fair Oaks, California