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...they'd learned from their own parents. "We taught them to work hard," he says, and also gave them "a sense of austerity. Children should not be given everything they ask for. In my day our parents didn't give in to us." Rigid discipline and corporal punishment were common, he recalls, both at home and at school, and women's roles were largely limited to the family. Though he says his daughters share his traditional values, all five of them work. Sánchez, who has 14 grandchildren, argues that working women miss out on "the best years...
...parties and inexhaustible supplies of American comics. But it was all colored by a guilt-edged curiosity at the poverty and brutality he saw on his frequent bike rides around the rest of Shanghai - trips about which his mother later claimed to know nothing. Arm's-length parenting was common in this social set, writes Ballard, with children often treated as "an appendage to their parents, somewhere between the servants and an obedient Labrador." He claims these were happy days, yet time and again he mourns, without rancor, the lack of parental warmth, which he blames on the stiff formalities...
...With the multitude of the programs for undergraduates to choose from, the problem of having unmotivated or insincere participants is common. Some groups have even structured policy to directly address this issue. Graham, also a former fundraiser for PBHA, says the organization deters the uncommitted participant by avoiding short-term social service initiatives...
...common thread that successful volunteers realize, leader say, is that in order to be successful, volunteers must not only be fully committed but also fully aware of their effect on individuals and the community as a whole. It is better to do something than nothing, but only if it is done with some care...
...taking now aren't just concepts he came up with on the campaign trail because they tested well in polls or focus groups; he wrote about them in his books years ago. His amazing ability to inspire derives from his refreshing authenticity and his emphasis on what is common to us rather than on what divides us. I'll take that over debate-scoring sound bites any day. Debbie Phillips-Donaldson, WEST DUNDEE...