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...child psychologists to help their kids become responsible adults. Some common parenting set pieces can lay a good foundation. In homes with nearly limitless assets, the challenge is to create limits, so that children can learn that money is something to be earned and husbanded - it is not a birthright that they are free to squander at will. One of the first steps parents should take is setting up an allowance for kids as soon as they start school, according to the Gallos. "The purpose [of an allowance] is to learn how to budget, to be able to plan...
...said that she was initially attracted by the food but that the event also allowed her to learn more about study abroad opportunities in Israel and Harvard’s pro-Israel community. Other organizations present at the event included the Israel Campus Roundtable, the David Project, and Birthright Israel, with booths that gave attendees information about the country and travel opportunities to Israel. Despite the persistent rain, an estimated 1,000 people passed through the event. The turnout was “amazing,” said HSI board member Jeffrey Kwong...
...precisely because this unit forms part of a plan to prepare the Palestinians to take control of the area that the Hebron settlers are so vehemently opposed - they have no interest in a two-state solution that would transfer land that they see at their Biblical birthright to Palestinian control...
This month millions of American kids flee the tyranny of the classroom bell for lifeguard stands, grandparents' homes and sleepaway camps. But summer vacation hasn't always been a birthright of U.S. schoolchildren. In the decades before the Civil War, schools operated on one of two calendars, neither of which included a summer hiatus. Rural schooling was divided into summer and winter terms, leaving kids free to pitch in with the spring planting and fall harvest seasons. Urban students, meanwhile, regularly endured as many as 48 weeks of study a year, with one break per quarter. (Since education...
...forth by a handful of conservatives, chief among them Andrew Sullivan. Yet Sullivan falls down when he resorts to the argument that gay marriage should be legalized because it will make a great number of gay Americans much happier. Sullivan calls the pursuit of happiness “the birthright of every American.” While this allusion to the Declaration of Independence’s preamble is sweetly sentimental, there is no guaranteed right to happiness in the Constitution (and for good reason). By giving credit to this argument, Sullivan opens up the door to all sorts...