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Your article on the Richardsons' leaving their daughter at home while they serve in the military in Kuwait is all the evidence most people need to decide that America is coming unglued. I'm a war veteran myself, but I'm reluctantly beginning to agree that something is wrong here. SHAWN DISNEY Onancock...
Under the best circumstances, a parent's remarriage can enrich the entire family. In 1986, a year after her mother's death, Joan Reckdahl's father remarried at age 74. His daughter was delighted with his new wife Agnes, then 67. "My father was a harsh, demanding man," Reckdahl says. "If he had needed support, it would have been difficult for us to take him in." Following the remarriage, her relationship with her father improved dramatically, a shift she credits to Agnes. When he died in 1994, his estate was divided among his four children, according to the terms...
...natural offspring of book clubs for adults, parent-child discussion groups--such as this one, which meets monthly in Wilmette, Ill.--have grown increasingly popular in recent years. Although the mother-daughter combination remains the most common configuration, mother-son, father-son and father-daughter groups also are coming together in libraries, bookstores and private homes across the country...
Shireen Dodson, author of The Mother-Daughter Book Club (HarperPerennial), says book groups encourage members to express their ideas and opinions openly without fear of judgment. Which means they're a great way to improve communication and understanding between parents and kids. That can be especially rewarding for mothers and sons who, as the boys grow older, may have fewer activities they share. "I was looking for ways to remain connected to Mason as he naturally--and with my support--began to separate from his dad and me," says Deb Claflin Marshall, a founding member of the Wilmette group. "This...
...Wilmette mother-son group formed about four years ago in response to the mother-daughter groups that were springing up around them. "A mother-son group seemed kind of quirky and fun," says Claflin Marshall. Summerland, which is 500 pages and drew mixed reviews from the group, is one of about 30 books they have read. The boys' tastes are, well, pure boy: heavy on science fiction and fantasy (think Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth and Patricia C. Wrede's Dealing with Dragons). The moms' picks have included Laurie Halse Anderson's historical fiction Fever 1793, the story...