Word: ages
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...home. "Don't have your kids overwhelmed with so many activities," says Roy M. Kern, professor of counseling and psychological services at Georgia State University. "Kids should pick one activity they really like and stick to it." Jeanne and Darin Coleman of Woodstock, Ga., with four children ranging in age from 8 months to 10 1/2 years, have a family rule of one sport at a time. Once children make a decision to take part in an activity, says Jan Allen, associate professor of child and family studies at the University of Tennessee, "parents should help them understand that they...
Taking the time to talk to your kids about money is the best way to head off trouble. "Families should sit down and discuss this before consumer messages win out in a kid's mind," planner Peg Eddy says. "That means early, probably around age four or five." Parents should explain to young children that there is a house to live in and toys to play with because Mommy and Daddy work and save money. As children get older, parents may discuss more specific issues, like saving for education, giving money to charity and budgeting for holiday or back...
Since the executives at the network--it was ABC, by the way--spent good money for their ad, I figure I should tell them something about the demographics of their one-person target audience. I'm part of the 35-to-50 age group--part of the far smaller age group that turned 44 last May 21, if you must know. I'm currently single, though I'm getting married in December, so my household income should increase considerably. I earn...well, even ABC doesn't need to know what I earn, but if you're looking for a consumer...
Understanding Adam is a tough task for those hobbled by age or taste. The typical Sandler comedy (not this year's amiable The Wedding Singer, in which he plays a borderline grownup, but Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore and the new film) is about a nerdy sociopath who learns to channel his rage into an acceptable format: winning a spelling bee, playing golf or tackling football players. "You don't have what they call the social skills," he is told in The Waterboy; that is Sandler's gimmick and, for many, his charm. The plot is a competition for which...
...longing for something beyond ourselves, is positive. But we have a problem with theological error," explains Bob Smithouser, who writes movie reviews for Plugged In, a publication of the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family. His critique of What Dreams May Come complained that the movie's New Age conceits "fly in the face of biblical truth." As if Hollywood was ever faithful to a book...