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...world--and American society in particular--simply become a more destabilizing place in which to raise children? Probably so. But other factors are at work, including sharp-eyed parents and doctors with a rising awareness of childhood mental illness and what can be done for it. "While we don't know exactly why the incidence of psychopathology is increasing in children and adolescents, it probably has to do with better diagnosis and detection," says Dr. Ronald Brown, professor of pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina...
...father, who sold milk containers, bought meat on the black market for the family dinner table, and Nilo's mother got a doctor friend to say the boy had hepatitis, which allowed him to be sent home from school at lunch so she could feed him better. A childhood filled with faux illnesses "meant I couldn't play and run around the neighborhood," he recalls. "That forced me to stay indoors...
...through the remembered narratives of the various members of the household, including Heed, Christine, L and Junior, a lusty, scheming teenage vixen "with a skirt short as underpants and no underpants at all," whom Heed hires to help out around the house. It emerges that Heed and Christine were childhood best friends but that when Cosey married Heed--she was 11 at the time--the girls were torn apart...
...fall into the category of children raised in countries other than their own. Your readers should be aware of an organization called Global Nomads International (gni) that aims to "promote opportunities for global nomads of all ages and nationalities" and explore the lifelong impact of an internationally mobile childhood. gni has established an amazing network that global nomads can tap into for social and professional purposes. The organization also works with children, parents and schools. Contrary to what some may think, most global nomads don't adjust to moves after a week or two of sulking. Most kids, based...
After the game, the two teams filed across the ice shaking hands, with the captains last in both lines. When Welch reached Lannon—his childhood friend who was still seething after his team’s first loss of the season—he leaned over and told him, “Hey, don’t worry about it. We’ve got four more years left of this...