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...past few years, however, all that has changed. At the dawn of the 21st century, a curious - and unsettling - transformation has come over American kids. The marvelously anarchic institution of childhood has been slowly turning into little more than an apprentice adulthood. Toddlers who once would have been years away from starting their formal education are being hothoused in nursery schools. Preschoolers who would have spent their time learning simply to play and share are being bombarded with flash cards, educational CD-ROMs and other gadgets designed to teach reading, writing and even second languages. Grade-schoolers are spending longer...
...publication of Exiting Nirvana, about Jessy's adolescence and adulthood, coincides with the reprinting of The Siege, Clara's 1967 account of Jessy's first eight years. Together these two volumes constitute what may be the best-documented case history of an autist. Without doubt it is the most readable...
TWEEN DISCIPLINE An Iowa State University study shows that children with stricter parents are more likely to stay out of trouble later in life. Trying to determine why some kids run into trouble as teens while others reach adulthood unscathed, researchers found that the quality of parenting during middle school years was key. Parents who set curfews and actively disciplined kids at this age had the most success; cracking down during high school is less effective because teens are more autonomous...
Twenty is a more understated birthday than the others, a quiet affirmation of adulthood, a small indication of the official end of childhood, the last suggestion of innocence...
...report, published in yesterday's edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association, cast doubt on previous findings that had claimed a correlation between a woman's fruit and vegetable intake duirng adulthood and her chances of developing breast cancer...