Word: motherism
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...right to the point. When he was three years old, he had a poster of the 42 American presidents in his bedroom. Within weeks he had memorized every name, and he was already picturing his face in the blank spot the poster had left for the 43rd president. His mother, A. Maria Ballesteros, said she got used to explaining to friends that she and her husband weren’t forcing Chris to memorize anything. “Otherwise they’d think we were weird parents,” she said. Chris was just an unusual child. Since...
...collect unusual stamps. So when a particular letter arrived at Caleb’s house last June, his father immediately separated it from the other mail. “I said, ‘I think this is from Karl Rove,’ and [Caleb’s mother] and I looked at each other and wondered ,” Steve C. Weatherl told me. Caleb had arranged for the Republican Club to bring Karl Rove to campus that April. The high-profile speaking event had gone very smoothly, but Rove had already written Caleb a thank-you note...
...According to the video's poster, the puppies turn five weeks old on Nov. 11 and are located somewhere in California. Early clips showed their mother, Kika, nursing the pups, who snuggle together in a doggy bed but have access to a larger play area. There is no shortage of toys for the dogs, who presently have what appears to be a stuffed striped bass or rainbow trout - it's hard to say from the pixelated live feed - among other playthings. (Around Halloween, a stuffed Jack-o-lantern made a brief cameo...
...mother is an expert in childhood development. Both parents, now in their 80s, still work in Chicago and live just two blocks from the Obamas' home in Hyde Park...
...figured it out - you point, signal, gesticulate wildly. It's kind of like drunken semaphore. Necessity is the mother of invention - she would stay at my place fairly often, so eventually I innovated sign language for "have a pizza delivered...