Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while most psychologists agree that young children can grasp very basic concepts of right and wrong well before adolescence (when they seem to ignore right and wrong), most also say those concepts aren't well developed for kids under 10. Kyle Pruett, a professor of clinical psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center, illustrates this point with a test: "Tell a seven- or eight-year-old, 'Johnny broke one teacup throwing it at his sister. Sara broke eight teacups helping Dad load the dishwasher. Which kid did the worse thing?' The average seven-year-old will pick Sara because...
...really. John Burris is the Oakland lawyer who defended the six-year-old accused of kicking Ignacio Bermudez Jr. "The prosecution in this case took the position that he was going to make the six- year-old responsible," Burris says. "But while the prosecutor was ranting and raving, this kid was drawing, sitting on his mother's lap, sleeping. He referred to me as the 'tall man.' He didn't understand what...
Folks in Englewood generally believe that the cops have nabbed the wrong people. They are not only having trouble imagining little kids committing an act so violent but say it's downright implausible that such featherweights--the boys weigh 50 lbs. and 56 lbs.--could drag Ryan more than a foot or so. "Every kid gets a little mischievous to get a little attention," says Blanton of the Wash Factory. "But something like this--no way. Not these two little kids." Echoes Cedric, a 15-year-old neighbor: "They got the wrong two people." Family members at the crime scene...
...sure, pop-psych notions about how you create a good kid--about some simple, magical parenting style--were due for the thrashing Harris gives them. Behavioral geneticists have learned that identical twins reared together are scarcely more alike than identical twins reared apart. This and other data suggest that the "shared environment" of siblings--including the overall household atmosphere and child-rearing tenets that parents apply to all their kids--have little straightforward effect on personality...
...allegations (or anything else). But Johnson herself had previously rejected any suggestion that she was involved. Hospital officials, she says, "act like I went into Wal-Mart and switched my baby. I'm not ... a rocket scientist, but I'm not an idiot. Why would I switch my kid? It doesn't make sense." It's also worth mentioning that Melissa Conley and Johnson don't get along and that Melissa nurses a grudge toward her brother's ex. "I'm scared of this woman," Melissa told TIME. "She is capable of doing anything...