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...know there are many people who feel that serving the occasional beer or wine to teenagers at home may actually decrease the allure of drinking. While that sounds logical (and very sophisticated), I think the more legitimate lesson is that there are simply some privileges and pleasures that should be confined to adults. We teach our children more by demonstrating how we handle our liquor than by giving it to them...
...abuse and the lack of close familial connections--especially between children and their fathers. I asked my group of college students what they thought society could do for them--more ad campaigns, safer campuses, a lower drinking age? To a person, they said the real education should happen at home, starting well before they are teenagers, maybe as young as age seven. ("By the time you're a teen, you've stopped listening," said one.) The best approach, they said, is for parents to try to have an ongoing discussion with them, to listen rather than lecture and to provide...
...1980s, Richard Nixon bought a similar home in a similar community, Saddle River, N.J. After the initial hoopla, values throughout town edged higher, says veteran Realtor Tommi Josse, at an area Weichert Realtors office. "It added pizazz, and people wanted to move in," she declares. So maybe the Clintons have done Chappaqua a favor...
...Location. This is rule No. 1, and it's so important that if you get it right, it will offset almost any home-buyer mistake. The Clintons did fine. They bought in a top-rated school district near reliable mass transit into Manhattan. They can be reasonably sure of getting their money out, reasonably quickly, anytime they sell...
...time.com/personal for more on home buying. Dan is a regular on CNNfn TV and BNN radio when he's not at his neighbors...