Word: mothers
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Departing from most education reporting, which tends to focus on vouchers, budgets and teachers' salaries, we went right to the source: the students themselves. "We went about this from the ground up," says Claudia Wallis, the managing editor of TIME FOR KIDS and a mother of three who wrote our lead story on exceptional students. "We were interested in figuring out what made these kids tick. To do that, we spoke with the students, their parents, friends, teachers and coaches." Finding the kids featured in Wallis' article required a nationwide search, coordinated by the project's chief reporter, Megan Rutherford...
...Alabama, referring to the imaging technology that vividly depicts areas of high and low brain activity. "Parents may be conveying to their children a franticness about doing everything right." University of Chicago psychology professor Janellen Huttenlocher, who reported correlations between the size of toddlers' vocabularies and how much their mothers talk to them, fears that parents may feel compelled to jabber incessantly around their kids. "Some mothers won't even take a job because of it," she says. "If you're a well-educated, interested mother, you shouldn't think about the findings one way or another...
...brains suffer because of insufficient stimulation or stimuli of the wrong kind. Dr. Bruce Perry of Houston's Baylor College of Medicine found that kids who hardly play--or who aren't touched very much--develop brains 20% to 50% smaller than normal. Infants in the care of mothers with severe depression show reduced brain activity as well as prominent effects in the parts of the brain associated with the expression of feelings. "This may result from such mothers' inability to relate affectionately and responsively to their infants," writes the University of Alabama's Ramey in his forthcoming book Right...
Wooroloo would be an impressive debut coming from any new poet, but the book will be read by many out of plain curiosity: In what manner does a child of those parents write? And although Hughes denies being consciously influenced by the work of her mother and father, traces from both are easy to see. Her mother's violent, lacerating imagery appears in a poem called "Hysterectomy": "My disease will be stripped out/ Like the rotten lining of a leather coat." Plath's angry confessional tone is echoed in "Granny": "You loved me not, just saw/ A copy...
...that she realized her role at the time. She was just shy of her third birthday when her mother died and, as she tells TIME in an exclusive U.S. interview, retains only fragmented, "private" memories of their life together. She adds that her father--and this may surprise all the Hughes haters among the Plath defenders--raised her and her younger brother Nicholas with a keen sense of their mother's continuing presence in their young lives. "I grew up thinking of her very much as an angel. Not even so much in death, but also in life...