Word: childe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Part of the appeal of a cruise is that it's an easy way for grandparents to take their grandchildren with them on vacation--an increasingly popular option, judging by the growing number of multigeneration tours and packages being offered. With the modern cruise fleet bristling with child-care facilities and supervised children's activities, grandparents don't have to entertain the children all the time. Some lines offer incentives for these two generations to travel together, with no charge or deep discounts for children during certain seasons. Regal China Cruises, which travels the Yangtze River, is offering...
...powerful video-game program developed by Scientific Learning Corp. of Berkeley, Calif., to aid children like her who cannot process the sounds of language fast enough to comprehend normal speech. Nicole spent six weeks of intense game playing at a speech clinic in New Jersey, emerging "like a different child," Donna Davis says. Today the ebullient second-grader chatters away with classmates, gets good grades and has stellar reading skills. As Nicole puts it, "I like to write stories and poems, read books and play with my friends...
...years to two years in such skills as following directions and understanding complex sentences. But the company does not yet know why some children benefit more than others, or why some may not benefit at all. "There is no silver bullet," warns Reid Lyon, the head of child development and behavior studies at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, which is conducting a five-year study of Fast ForWord and other remediation programs...
...parental devotion? How can kids focus on schoolwork when tempted by a luscious smorgasbord of multimedia junk? Hmm, would Ritalin help? Is Austin Powers too racy for a nine-year-old? How about tube tops and platform shoes? Looming larger is a more ominous concern: Will my child's life end in a burst of gunfire and a pool of blood on the cafeteria's cold linoleum floor...
...very happy to be kids, and they don't view the world as the nasty place their parents perceive it to be. Nine out of 10 say they feel safe in their schools and neighborhoods. While parents list crime, violence and guns as the worst aspects of being a child today, such concerns are way down the list for kids. Their gripes are the timeless laments of childhood: "getting bossed around," homework, chores...