Word: listening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...People always said I would be behind my year, but I'm glad I didn't listen to them. The only time you can do all these things is when you are young," Blodgett says...
...time and creativity at the beginning of the school year. A good prefect is nevertheless able to make the houses more accessible, to reassure people about finals, to talk about concentrations, to let freshmen know about events tucked away in the Harvard information barrage, or to be there to listen. Juniors and seniors, who did not have prefects for their full freshman year, may remember how upperclass student's often seemed alien, the houses remote, Harvard bewildering. On a campus where the freshman year is in so many ways set apart, we shouldn't underestimate what contact and communication with...
...civil rights lawyer practicing in Jackson, Miss., Edelman had sought out a group of black teenagers, hoping to dissuade them from violence. But when she tried to warn them that looting and rioting in the streets "may ruin your future," one boy angrily shot back, "Lady, why should I listen to you? Lady, I ain't got no future...
...cluster warning signals, like other indications of suicidal tendencies, can often be ignored by parents, peers and teachers. "Everybody is in such a rush that we don't take the time to listen to our youngsters," says Elaine Leader, co-founder of a teen crisis hotline at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. In cases of cluster suicides, notes Charlotte Ross, executive director of the Youth Suicide National Center, "people grossly underestimate the grief reaction" of adolescents to the deaths of their friends. Lisa Burress, for example, had dated Joe Major for six months before his death...
...dangers of dates between women raised to be politely passive and aggressive males who sometimes assume that no means yes. "Women are taught to be nice, to be attractive and appealing," she says, "but we should also teach women to speak up more and teach men to listen more...