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That occurs at the very time when a baby's galloping growth rate is beginning to taper. A child typically triples its birth weight during the first 12 months, but babies don't normally approach the quadruple mark until their second birthday. With growth slowing, toddlers need fewer calories per kilogram than infants, but not many parents seem to know that. In fact, because toddlers tend to be pickier than infants and are less interested in sitting still for a meal, parents often grow concerned that their kids aren't eating enough. "It becomes a vicious cycle where the parent...
...step. In July she is covering the first direct Eurostar service of the summer from London to Avignon for the Financial Times. Then off on a summer cruise-ship lecture tour. In October she will be fêted at the New York Public Library for her 80th birthday. Yet there will be no more books, save one. "I've been very ill," she says. "I had two brain surgeries earlier this year, so I'm sort of taking the year off. I'm much better now, thanks. I can stand, walk, even drive a car. I have this Honda...
Vonda's adoption was finalized three weeks before her 18th birthday, but she's still waiting for her happy ending. At 13 she received a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. She never stayed on the prescribed medications but did get hooked on the painkiller Oxycontin. ("I forget my problems. I forget everything," she says of her addiction.) When Karla, now 47, and Dale, 53, tried to intervene, Vonda resisted. Karla, a therapist, says Vonda once agreed to enroll in a rehab program and then checked herself out just three hours after she arrived. She was arrested in 2002 for breaking into...
...years old every day. To mark our birthday, we will print some pictures and text from back issues of the magazine every month from now through November. The first selection?touching on everything from refugees in Shanghai to the first sub-four-minute mile in Oxford?is in this issue. Later in the year, we will publish two special editions to further celebrate our anniversary. We hope you enjoy them both?and our monthly trips through our back numbers...
...gets, my son has just been around so many great people.”“We use a lot of the kids as babysitters,” said Piper. “And the staff is wonderful too—they come to our kids’ birthday parties.”FOUR-LETTER WORDS BEFORE AGE 4Despite the advantages of raising kids in the Harvard community, child-rearing on a college campus comes with its share of challenges.Doctors advise tutors to keep their children out of the dining halls for their first three months, so they...