Word: certain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...less overbearing and to see things from his son's point of view. "We care passionately about how he's doing, but we're just calmer on the outside." Says Mike's mother Karen: "Kids are not vending machines, where you put in a quarter and then a certain product comes out. There's only so much you can do, and then you have to sit back and wave at them...
...thick the fogs were, counting spider webs and spying on the hornets. She also wrote for her mother the annual fall column that Lane has written for the Crossville Chronicle for more than 50 years. "This is a wonderful heritage," Hedgecoth says. "We're going to make certain it stays alive...
...than a dozen of our reporters, writers and photographers have fanned out across the country to address a simple-sounding question that stays on the minds of parents: How can we make our kids better students? In a 16-page special report, TIME this week examines how and why certain kids manage to excel. This in-depth package offers parents the latest thinking, illustrated by vivid examples, on how to help their children lead successful and well-balanced lives...
...academic problems in reading and writing. Researchers are exploring not just sexual harassment of girls but bullying and teasing of boys. A rash of school shootings by boys has brought calls to cut back on violent video games and provide more in-school counseling. And parents are objecting to certain excesses: "Is it really fair," wrote Kathleen Parker, a columnist for the Orlando Sentinel, "that one of [my son's] feminist teachers refuses even to use male pronouns, referring to all students as 'shes' and all work as 'hers...
...candidate intelligence remains the task of other days and other volumes." And at the very end of the book, he warned that his work "needs to be amply discussed and tested" in the fields of biology and cognitive science before it is put into practice. "We are not yet certain," he said, "of the goodness of the idea of multiple intelligences...