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...extracurricular activities. They downsized, downshifted and simplified because they had to - and often found, much to their surprise, that they liked it. When a TIME poll last spring asked how the recession had affected people's relationships with their kids, nearly four times as many people said relationships had gotten better as said they'd gotten worse. "This is one of those moments when everything is on the table, up for grabs," says Carl Honoré, whose book Under Pressure: Rescuing Our Children from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting is a gospel of the slow-parenting movement. He likens...
...revolutionary leaders are careful about offering too much advice. Parents have gotten plenty of that, and one of the goals of this new movement is to give parents permission to disagree or at least follow different roads. "People feel there's somehow a secret formula for parenting, and if we just read enough books and spend enough money and drive ourselves hard enough, we'll find it, and all will be O.K.," Honoré observes. "Can you think of anything more sinister, since every child is so different, every family is different? Parents need to block out the sound...
...hour version of the show in Bern, Switzerland, and they loved it. They love their mountains in Switzerland so they were able to really relate to the work we’re doing around mountaintop removal...but I think people in Boston really—we’ve gotten some very, very nice feedback and some very intelligent feedback...
...women make them? There are several possible reasons: One, they’re too afraid. Two, they don’t care. Three, that they don’t know what they want themselves. Women do seem to be at an impasse: We’ve gotten as far as figuring out that we like sex but haven’t yet figured out how to make it fulfilling for ourselves. How could we, when all we read is how to “Give to Him the Orgasm He’s Always Wanted?...
...nightmares every night, but talking about it with groups has helped me to overcome some of those issues," Marquez says. "Now I remember it like a movie or a dream." For others, the memories are still more like a nightmare. "This is something we still haven't gotten over yet," says a soft-spoken Maria de la Paz Chicas, one of the few survivors of the El Mozote Massacre, in which the military murdered 1,700 villagers on Dec. 11, 1981. Chicas, who was 11 at the time, went into the nearby mountains to help pick coffee that...