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...Parents remain the most significant people in children's lives, until age 14 or 15, when they have more fully embraced peer culture," says Jean Bailey, coordinator of child and adolescent mental-health services at Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. Personal values about religion, sex and obeying authority are shaped primarily shaped by parents right up until the teenage years, when things suddenly shift. While kids may be exposed to sex in the media, "there's a lot of anxiety about what the whole deal of sexual behavior is," says child psychologist Anthony Wolf, author...
...true that most adults think they don't have much to learn from children and don't really value their opinions, except on topics like, say, ice cream," says David Elkind, professor of child development at Tufts University and author of The Hurried Child (1981). "Kids do have interesting ideas, if you're willing to listen. And I think sometimes adults are not civil enough with kids, saying please, thank you, apologizing for breaking promises...
More than 80% of new college graduates interned at least once in their university career, according to Samer Hamadeh, co-author of The Internship Bible. He estimates that the number of interns has doubled in the past decade. Peterson's Summer Opportunities for Kids & Teenagers contains 1,800 entries this year--internships, specialized camps and summer-abroad programs--nearly twice the 1995 number. Summer-school enrollment is on the rise, as are prep courses for the SATs; the Princeton Review got so many tutoring requests in the ritzy Hamptons this year that it had to rent a summer house...
...question Maynard's motives in all this. I assume her thinking was: if making this relationship public can provide solace to just one other opportunistic nymphet leech who's had a traumatic affair with a pathologically phobic and exploitative author, then it will all have been worth...
Hemingway purists have also bristled at the commercialism that has swelled during Papa's centennial year. Credit--or blame--for much of this activity goes to the author's three sons, who some years ago signed with a licensing agent to control the use of the Hemingway name. The latest venture to win the sons' approval is the Ernest Hemingway Collection from the Thomasville furniture company. Among the offerings: the Pamplona Sofa and the Kilimanjaro...