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...where fairness issues regularly explode. The children often encounter three or four different sets of rules: those of their biological parent and their stepparent in each household. Experts advise that, with rare exceptions, biological parents should discipline their children, even if there are different rules within the same household. Explaining these differences to the child is key, says Linda Gordon, a Chevy Chase, Md., family therapist specializing in children of divorce. When husband and wife discipline their children differently, she suggests that a parent explain, "Stepdad and I have different values, but I still think my values are good." Over...
...defend her son Sam, now 10, when his three older stepsiblings teased him. "I'd react, 'My poor baby!'" she admits. Her husband Kent Davis suggested that when the kids fought, the disputants should bring their issue before both parents. Each child, without interruption and using "I" statements, would explain what happened and how it made him feel. The tactic has helped the kids recognize when they are being unfair and learn to resolve their differences, although, says Wallis, it can be hard to listen without taking sides. Says she: "I had to teach myself not to add comments...
...affirmative action policies “forgive” lower levels of “academic success” for underrepresented minorities in college admissions. While this might be a valid explanation for why Asian-Americans are held to higher academic standards than other minorities, it fails to explain why Asian Americans are held to higher academic standards than white students. For example, the editorial even cites how at the University of Michigan, “the median [SAT] test score for Asian students…was 50 points higher than the median score for white students...
...barring medical and religious exemptions. The handful of current students at the College who served in the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) before coming to Harvard say the interlude forced them to think about themselves and their country.“It is always difficult for me to explain to Americans the full story of my military service,” says MishyHarman ’08, who spent three years in the IDF before coming to Harvard. “Blowing up houses sounds horrifying, and it is. But I say this out of a complete inner understanding that Israel...
...full understanding of his goals: “I need to make a film to know what film I wanted to make. Even when I have finished, I only know a part of what I have done.” Though he said that he cannot entirely explain the phenomenon of success, he credited that of his biggest hit, “To Be and To Have”—filmed in a one-room schoolhouse in Auvergne—in part to the universality of its themes. “We all have been at school...