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...view of psychologist and child-care guru John Rosemond, who laid out his complaints in a series of columns published in more than 100 newspapers last month. And superficially at least, his arguments seem to make sense. For more than a generation, observes Rosemond, experts like Dr. T. Berry Brazelton have advised parents to let kids decide for themselves when to make the transition from diapers to potty. As a result, the age of toilet training has risen dramatically--as has the incidence of constipation, bladder-control problems and other potty-related ills...
...work and no play could make for some very messed-up kids. Child experts, usually a divided bunch, agree: fun is good. "Play is the most powerful way a child explores the world and learns about himself," says T. Berry Brazelton, a pediatrician at Harvard Medical School who has written a number of books on parenting. Unstructured play encourages independent thinking and allows the young to negotiate their relationships with their peers, but kids ages 3 to 12 spent only 12 hours a week engaged in it. Brazelton warns, "If we don't pay attention to this, we're going...
Both Skocpol and Brazelton point to Clinton's 1996 best-selling book It Takes a Village as evidence of the mainstream appeal of the First Lady's ideas. And both say Clinton's platform was misportrayed by her conservative opposition...
...Brazelton says the Republican Party sought to discredit Clinton because it felt threatened by the popularity of her family and community-oriented values...
...think that when the Republican party rises up about something like that, they hit below the belt," Brazelton says. "They're all scared of her because she's so smart and because she's a woman. They try to muzzle her in Washington, but it doesn't work...