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Instead, the conversations should focus on what the child is capable of absorbing, and what the child asks about. Parents should also take advantage of every excuse to broach the difficult subject - a mention of sex or sexuality on a TV show, a pregnancy in the family, sex-education classes in school or a visit to the doctor around the time of puberty. "If you just get over the hurdle of starting, then once the conversation gets going, you often find it's easier than expected," says Schuster. "So use any excuse you want, but just get over the initial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parents' Sex Talk with Kids: Too Little, Too Late | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

Though it would be a major boost for the team if it was to win this weekend’s set, the Crimson is not approaching Minnesota differently than it has any other team this season. The focus of its practice and strategy is to play the game out to its full potential, approaching every team it faces as if it were its biggest competition...

Author: By Alexa I Stern, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No. 2 Minnesota To Test Crimson at Home | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

Though it would be a major boost for the team if it was to win this weekend’s set, the Crimson is not approaching Minnesota differently than it has any other team this season. The focus of its practice and strategy is to play the game out to its full potential, approaching every team it faces as if it were its biggest competition...

Author: By Renee G. Stern, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No. 2 Minnesota To Test Crimson at Home | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...Department of Education, sensitive to such criticisms as well as to the years-long frustration with No Child Left Behind's focus on testing, is hoping to use turnarounds to place the focus more on "growth models," in which the most important measurement is not a single year's test score but rather whether students are improving from year to year. (Currently, NCLB requires states to simply take a snapshot of students based on their year-end standardized test scores, as opposed to tracking advancement over time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calling Out America's Worst Schools: A $3.5 Billion Plan | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...younger sisters, Deanna and Ashley Knox, ages 20 and 14; Deanna withdrew from college for a semester because she couldn't focus in the wake of Knox's trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amanda Knox, Convicted of Murder in Italy | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

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