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...shocking, it's the emotional violence," says Garrel. "Actually, shooting these types of scenes is easy. It's watching them that's difficult," he says, recalling his embarrassment when his own mother saw Ma Mère. Garrel already has another French movie in the can, directed by his dad. Like Bertolucci's Dreamers, Les Amants Réguliers (Regular Lovers), due for release in the fall, is set in 1968. It follows a group of protesters during the upheaval and afterward, when the world's attention has shifted. Up next - if funds materialize - is the Catherine Breillat film...
By the time children turn 18, they have spent only 13% of their waking lives in the classroom. Their habits of mind, motivation and muscles have much more to do with that other 87%. But try telling that to an Ivy-educated mom and dad whose kids aren't doing well. It can't be the genes, Mom and Dad conclude, so it must be the school. "It's the bright children who aren't motivated who are most frustrating for parents and teachers," says Nancy McGill, a past president of the Iowa Talented and Gifted Association. "Parents...
When a teacher asks parents to be partners, he or she doesn't necessarily mean Mom or Dad should be camping in the classroom. Research shows that though students benefit modestly from having parents involved at school, what happens at home matters much more. According to research based on the National Education Longitudinal Study, a sample of nearly 25,000 eighth-graders, among four main areas of parental involvement (home discussion, home supervision, school communication and school participation), home discussion was the most strongly related to academic achievement...
...example the perversely obnoxious kids that bully Bobby at school, the kind of kids that only exist in bad movies. Consequently, their behavior never seems real. They are never allowed to stray too far from the idea of what they are supposed to be, whether that is workaholic dad, passive mom, bratty kids...
Wrong. Let me school you to the game. When I told my mom and dad about this excursion, I gained some invaluable information. My mom informed me that Chucky used to grope the mothers at birthday parties, while my father’s immediate response was, “Do they still sell beer there...