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...book is the work of three formidable writers. Michael Thompson, a clinical psychologist, is co-author of the best-selling Raising Cain; Catherine O'Neill Grace is a former psychology columnist for the Washington Post; and Lawrence Cohen is a psychologist and the author of Playful Parenting. Their collaboration occasionally belabors points that most moms and dads already know. For example: "Children...silently sort themselves into popular, accepted and rejected categories." But it includes plenty of insights and case studies so that parents will come away with ideas they can use. A few key points...
...September, Harvard psychologist Dan Kindlon, co-author of the best-selling 1999 book Raising Cain, will publish Too Much of a Good Thing: Raising Children of Character in an Indulgent Age, in which he warns parents against spoiling their children either materially or emotionally, against trying to make kids' lives perfect. Using the body's immune system as a metaphor, Kindlon argues, "The body cannot learn to adapt to stress unless it experiences it. Indulged children are often less able to cope with stress because their parents have created an atmosphere where their whims are indulged, where they have always...
...that these so-called “EVIL with a capital E” types are just us, the way we really are, once you strip away all the law-abiding, paycheck-loving, 9-to-5 trimmings that make our American civilization tick. People have been killing people since Cain and Abel—or since homo sapiens and Neanderthals, if you like the Darwinian creation myth better. And they aren’t about to stop just because it makes modern liberals distinctly uncomfortable...
...enough of people pontificating on the evils of speed in a blind spew of judgmental ignorance. Unless you've taken that hit yourself and felt the rush, then crashed hard in anguish and despair afterward, I'm not interested in your opinion on the subject. BRIDGET Q. CAIN San Diego
...Still, public executions - the last of which were in the 1930s in this country - have some surprising proponents. Burl Cain, the warden of Louisiana's Angola prison, thinks future killers might be deterred if they could see the fear in the eyes of condemned inmates. Groups opposing the death penalty have come down on both sides of the issue, some arguing that public views would change if people watched the act of government-sanctioned killings. In 1994, Ohio judge Anthony Calabrese ordered that the execution of double murderer Tyson Dixson be conducted publicly, should Dixson's appeals fail. "We have...