Word: focusing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...months ago, I took my sons to buy shoes. Nate is 14 and autistic. Joey is 8 and "typical." And I'm the parent - most of the time. Before we got to the store, Joey said to me, "If Nate has a tantrum, I can handle him. You just focus on buying shoes. I'm better at handling tantrums than you. Sometimes you just yell and it makes things worse. No offense...
Solution: Create special time Harris urges parents to set aside alone-time with their typical kids every week. "Private time can even [include] riding in the car to pick up the laundry," she says, "but since [the child is] with Daddy, [he or she is] the focus of his attention...
Machetes are not something you expect to find on hard-scrabble southern farms. But there they inexplicably are, and the adorable little Cox brothers are in the habit of fencing with them on soft-focus summer days - until, accidentally, Dewey cuts his saintly sibling in two with his blade...
...game,” said junior point guard Drew Housman, who led the team with five assists. “Turnovers were huge, and even the few ones we had [Northeastern] seemed to capitalize on and that gives them momentum. I think everyone made a concerted effort to focus on being strong with the ball...
...True to his single-issue focus, Tancredo chose to throw his support behind former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney out of a mixture of agreement and spite. Romney, "has actually got a record," said Tancredo. "He was governor of a liberal state but opposed drivers licenses for illegal immigrants and instate tuition for illegal immigrants? at a time when they weren't issues on the national scene." As for why the endorsement came now, Tancredo admitted he hoped to hurt the chances of rivals Mike Huckabee and John McCain - both of whom he views as weak on immigration...