Word: infantalizing
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...body check makes manic-depressives of a team's rooters. And some parents are among the most rabid, reckless fans. Inflating their kids' skills, magnifying a child's lapses, they can make dinnertime a celebration or an inquisition; and if they don't take out their frustration on the infant athletes, they may attack the arbiters. "Kill the umpire" is only a marginal exaggeration...
Darryl has come aboard the submarine for two reasons: to develop the courage so crucial for spelling competitions, and to escape Ashley, his vindictive 17 year-old ex-girlfriend and the mother of infant son Andy and Andy’s 11 year-old brother, Andrew (don?...
KIDS UP, MOM DOWN Mothers who are frequently up at night with their infant children could be at risk for depression, according to a study in the medical journal Pediatrics. Researchers studied the sleep patterns of 700 new moms and their offspring. About half of the women reported that their babies were poor sleepers, and almost 25% of those sleep-deprived moms scored high on depression tests. Researchers discovered that mothers who found ways to get enough sleep by napping when their baby did or having their partners take on some night duty were not depression prone...
Like most kids infected with AIDS, Nkosi was born with it. He met his father for the first time at his mother's funeral. Taken in as an infant by Gail Johnson, a middle-class white woman who met him while volunteering at a Johannesburg AIDS care center, Nkosi lived a relatively normal childhood. He loved puzzles and cards. "He cheated like hell," remembers Gail. When the former P.R. executive first enrolled Nkosi in primary school, they met opposition from some parents because of his HIV status. Mother and child went public with a complaint and won. Nkosi dreamed...
...Like most kids infected with AIDS, Nkosi was born with it. He met his father for the first time at his mother's funeral. Taken in as an infant by Gail Johnson, a middle-class white woman who met him while volunteering at a Johannesburg AIDS care center, Nkosi lived a relatively normal childhood. He loved puzzles and cards. "He cheated like hell," remembers Gail. When the former p.r. executive first enrolled Nkosi in primary school, they met opposition from some parents because of his HIV status. Mother and child went public with a complaint and won. Nkosi dreamed...