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Sometimes families can get too close for comfort. Last Christmas a pregnant Cindy Green and her husband Todd flew with their two children, Jonah, 4, and Caroline, 2, from North Carolina to Cindy's mother's home in Massachusetts. This time, in contrast to previous years, they didn't gather in the old family homestead; Cindy's mother had downsized to a small two-bedroom condo. So Green installed herself on the living-room couch, Todd and Jonah slept in the second bedroom, and Caroline bunked with Grandma. "It was tough, especially because the first night, Caroline came down with...
...change in schedule or space," says Maureen O'Brien, a developmental psychologist. For younger babies, the challenge is maintaining their schedule. Mentally scroll through your routine and remember to bring any item intimately involved with getting your child to eat, sleep or settle down: a favorite spoon, a comfort toy or a familiar lullaby tape...
...opportunity to transfer is important in and of itself. By having the opportunity to apply, visiting students would benefit psychologically from playing an active role in determining their future, rather than simply being shuttled from university to university without any sense of agency. Perhaps this would be cold comfort to the visiting the students who are not accepted, but the opportunity to transfer is better than getting rejected a priori and summarily cast...
Hang on to your boarding passes this holiday season--it's bound to be a bumpy ride. Luckily, there's a new generation of travel gadgets designed to ease your passage in style and comfort. Case in point: the Travel Brush Kit, above, from Michael Marcus Cosmetics ($95). It packs eight sable makeup brushes into a compact just slightly thicker than a passport...
DIED. RUTH SIEMS, 74, General Foods research-and-development staff member whose carefully planned recipe made Stove Top stuffing a best-selling comfort to harried mothers everywhere; of a heart attack; in Newburgh, Ind. Knowing that bread-crumb size held the key to liquid absorption--and thus "proper texture and mouthfeel," as the patent stated--she determined the precise dimensions of the ideal crumb--about those of a pencil eraser. Now part of Kraft, Stove Top sells some 60 million boxes every Thanksgiving...