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Still feeling the influences of the psychedelic 1960s, Cambridge in the early 1970s was a place where students could listen to music, eat at mom-and-pop restaurants and hang out alongside followers of counterculture--"Pit Kids" and street performers alike...
Still feeling the influences of the psychedelic 1960s, Cambridge in the early 1970s was a place where students could listen to music, eat at mom-and-pop restaurants and hang out alongside followers of counterculture - "Pit Kids" and street performers alike...
...year-old and I don't talk about sex. I keep thinking we're supposed to talk about it, the way families on television do, but frankly I've been putting it off, the way my mother always put it off. (Mom, I'm still waiting.) But the time has come in our house--and perhaps in yours too--to talk about sex. Our children, starting at around age three, need to learn first about their bodies and then, when they're older, about other people's bodies and, finally, about the necessary boundaries between them...
Parents and schools can guard against harassment by not tolerating it. Give your daughter the strength to say no, loudly--as LaShonda Davis did. And if you have a son who is struggling to understand what is acceptable behavior toward girls, Nan Stein says, run the Mom Test on him. "If you overhear your son talking about girls in a trashy way, remind him, 'That's me you're talking about.' If he thinks it's hilarious to snap a girl's bra, ask him if he would have done it with his mother in the room...
...PLAY WITH YOUR FOOD: An especially galling aspect of motherhood is all the worrying about whether junior is eating enough. Annabel Karmel's First Meals may be the perfect new-mom gift. It has all the regular stuff, like nutrition advice and recipes. But its real charm is for the decoratively challenged (or the desperate): fun food-presentation ideas, like chicken-sausage snails, above...