Word: cribbing
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...suites, framed "memory boxes" display mementos of the lives of the people who live behind those doors--family photos, military dog tags and other souvenirs of long lives. In the special section for residents with Alzheimer's, one area is stocked with old tool kits, wedding gowns and a crib with several dolls, haunting but therapeutic props meant to engage the minds of people who have returned in fantasy to younger days when they worked and raised families. "We want to create pleasant days for these folks," says Jennifer Rehm, who runs the busy activity room. "This is not usually...
...forcing him to look at works of great art is that this satisfies the parents' agenda, not necessarily the child's. "Babies are like little scientists," says Kuhl, who, along with two co-authors, presents her ideas in a book also coming out next month, The Scientist in the Crib. "They take in data, make hypotheses about the outside world and test them." This sort of learning goes on throughout life, but Kuhl argues convincingly that the process is most intense and wide ranging in the first few years...
Tyler was just seven months old and beginning to sit up on his own, playing peek-a-boo with a washcloth. Amy found him face down in his crib on Father's Day. That morning, instead of rousing their son, as he often did, Ron had jumped into the shower and told her to wake Tyler. She pulled on the infant's hand to turn him over and discovered his body stiff. She screamed. Ron told her to dial 911. The doctors said it was SIDS, sudden infant death syndrome. They buried Tyler two days later...
Then, as she wept, Ron told her his story. As Tyler was cooing and playing with his feet in the crib, Ron wrapped the baby's head in plastic wrap. He then sat down for dinner and brushed his teeth before returning to see his son's last breath. He removed the wrap and turned the baby onto his stomach, switched off the light and went to bed. He wanted Amy to be the one to discover the body. "Now we're even," he said...
...husband's sperm, the other by an African-American couple who had been seeing the same specialist at the same time. She carried both embryos to term, giving birth to two beautiful but noticeably different boys and raising them for three months, during which time they shared the same crib, the same swing, the same parents. Then when a black couple came forth claiming to be the biological parents of one of her twins, she faced a truly Solomonic test of love...