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...healthy by doing chores or working as a handyman or gardener. "Baby-boomer children would be happy to pay someone to shop for their parents or check on them regularly," she notes. Other options are working in day-care centers and substituting in schools. For boomers concerned that Mom and Dad's elder care is a looming time bomb, she says, this is a perfect time to have a heart-to-heart talk with them about their finances. "Just say, 'We've gotten whacked, and we're wondering how you are doing,'" she suggests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will We Ever Retire?: Everyone, Back in the Labor Pool | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

...idea is that parents are responsible for their charges' leisure time and, having read the warning sticker, will decide if a film is appropriate. That notion is naively anachronistic in an age when the family as a unit of cultural consumption hardly exists: Dad watches ESPN, Mom does Lifetime, Little Bro works his Game Boy Advance, and Kid Sis is a Powerpuff Girl. Besides, children can read too. They know that parents strongly cautioned means kids desperately wanted. The whisper of the forbidden is their siren call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Essay Is Rated PG-13 | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

...screen vertical water surface when you wave your hands could lead to a whole new way of controlling software without the need for a keyboard, mouse or joy pad. Game On has something for everyone, whether you're an obsessive gamer, a student of media studies, a mom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enter the Funhouse | 7/28/2002 | See Source »

...successful author--and she is a very successful author--Janet Evanovich, 59, has many unfashionable tastes. She loved her years as a stay-at-home mom, in an era when feminist, have-it-all ideals reigned. She adores romance novels, though many women read them only with the curtains drawn. She is addicted to junk food, never mind that tofu is de rigeur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Careers: Late Bloomer | 7/22/2002 | See Source »

...Winners GLORIA TREVI Mexican pop queen and jailhouse mom could be released from Brazilian prison. Clearly the world has its next celebrity reality show PENELOPE CRUZ Actress plans launch of U.S. branch of Indian charity. She'll be distributing food, medicine and Tom Cruise's discarded dental braces RIO FERDINAND English defender is looking to switch teams if some club meets Leeds' $50 million asking price. Or they could sign Jeff Agoos 183 times Losers NOELLE BUSH President's niece jailed after violating court-ordered rehab. Once again, Bush family values are taken with a grain of something or other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week | 7/22/2002 | See Source »

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