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...demanding a good 12 inches of squishy rubber under the jungle gym so that anyone who falls will bounce right back. "The parents are not the bad guys," says Nancy McGill, a teacher in Johnston, Iowa, who learned a lot about handling parents from being one herself. "They're mama grizzly bears. They're going to defend that cub no matter what, and they don't always think rationally. If I can remember that, it defuses the situation. It's not about me. It's not about attacking our system. It's about a parent trying to do the best...
...Every mama bird knows to do what my parents did: kick young adults out of the comfy nest and make them learn to fly on their...
...pretending to multi-task by reading magazines like Glamour, Vogue, Cosmo or Teen People. Toting such high-quality publications creates a false sense of productivity, thus lessening the guilt associated with avoiding work. Even if you do poorly on finals, you’re going to be one toned mama...
...Education is also marked by a smattering of terrific performances, particularly from Bernal, whose recent lead roles in The Motorcycle Diaries, Amores Perros and Y Tu Mama Tambien have quickly transformed him into an international art-film superstar. Bernal shows an impressive range in Almodovar’s film, moving from starlet to drag queen to ambivalent con artist without distracting the audience by stressing his versatility...
...modern example of the latter are Nixon itself and Y Tu Mama Tambien, by Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron, who is also one of the producers of Nixon. Cuaron laments the lack of genuine political fervor behind the majority of American cinema. In a recent interview he described various films by foreign directors who are trying to make a statement. What he disagrees with is the American notion that these filmmakers and their countries hate America. “We love America,” says Cuaron. “Most of us love America, what we don?...