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...smothering influence of his lefty professor mother Grace (Christine Lahti) and the stigma of being the biggest dork in his high school. Grace is idealistic but willful--really, she's the rebellious teen in the family, down to her pot smoking--and so Jack is forced to be the adult. Like The West Wing, with which it shares producer Thomas Schlamme, Jack & Bobby takes itself too seriously--the documentary interviews feel like Gravitas Helper. But it's also a smart, well-written show that constantly subverts our expectations, and it takes a rare demographic risk, reminding the WB's young...
What impact do kids have on parents' purchases? Researchers estimate that about $600 billion of adult spending is now "influenced" by children. If you look at the kids' channels, you will see adult products being advertised. Hotels, automobiles, technology--kids weigh in on a wide range of parental purchases...
...costing our team the division championship after dropping two easy touchdown passes in the first quarter of our match with archrival Stirling. But I sprung back over the summer, when I finally found my ultimate personal and professional success. During the senior league season— the second-tier adult league—I set a new record for British single season receiving yards and making it to the Division 2 playoffs. But it wasn’t the stats or the results that made my nine months in Scotland the proverbial “time of my life...
...Latham also sees himself as a messiah. A person who joined the Labor Party on the same night as Latham in 1979 recalls the teenager boasting how he would be prime minister one day. Latham has spent his entire adult life making his way up from the grass roots: working as an aide to the retired Whitlam, then in the office of New South Wales Labor Opposition leader Bob Carr (now Premier), as a Liverpool City councillor and, since 1994, as the local M.P. for Werriwa. He's diligent, serious and bookish - and a seeker of political tutors. His Labor...
Although some are outspoken about their feelings, many are not. "Parents are afraid to be seen as meddling, so they don't ask questions or say how they feel," says Joel Crohn, a psychologist in San Rafael, Calif., and author of Mixed Matches (Fawcett Columbine). "And adult kids often assume they know what their parents are thinking, so they also avoid saying anything." Crohn counsels grandparents to take the lead in getting these concerns out. And they have to let their adult children know when they are uncomfortable, "as long as they add that they still love and respect their...