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...while we were raising our families. Professionally, we'll be called upon as part-time consultants by younger workers eager for the wisdom born of experience, or we will generously donate our time and skills to our favorite causes. Our children and grandchildren, so pleased with how well Mom and Pop are doing, will visit often, each time drinking thirstily from the vessels of kindly wisdom that we have miraculously become...
...Tracy Bates is already on edge. She earned A's and B's last semester in most subjects, including attendance and presentable uniforms. But she's been working to pull up the D she got in homework monitoring. Bates, you see, is a 39-year-old stay-at-home mom whose daughter is a fifth-grader at Harold Washington...
Just seeing their parents scrutinized is incentive enough for some students to improve. Shanece Bates, 10, says of her mom, "I'm glad she got some bad grades too and really knew how I was doing. Now we're back on track." And if mom can just bring up that homework grade, she has a shot at making the parent honor roll...
Especially if you're a Devil. The team is called "the firm" because the owner, Lou Lamoriello, runs it like IBM in 1955. Gomez's teammates, only two of whom are single, are more serious than he. Once, in his mom's office--she counsels women on infant nutrition--he autographed a picture with "Breast feeding got me here, Scott Gomez...
Every adult remembers where he was when he learned that Bambi's mom had been shot by a lone gunman. For many of us, it was an emotional rite of passage. We clutched a grownup's hand in the darkened theater. But imagine watching Bambi or Beauty and the Beast on video, not as a seven-year-old but at four, and without a parent present to explain the law of the cartoon jungle. Kids ages two to five spend an average of 1 1/2 hours watching videos each day, yet children up to age five need adult help...