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...first time Donna Maria Coles Johnson spanked her daughter, they both cried. Johnson remembers that afternoon two years ago as if it were yesterday. They had just come home from church, and Vanessa, then 2, refused to take off her dress before nap time. "She gave me this look like she was the mother," Johnson, 43, recalls. "I'm fast-forwarding 16 years in my mind, hearing her say, 'Well, I'm taking the car anyway.'" Without a word, Johnson picked Vanessa up, took her into the bathroom and gave her six slaps on the thigh. After explaining the reason...
...keep them under control.“[In college], I had a bad message in my head that nothing ever works out,” he says. “I still have that message. Although now that I’m older, I go take a nap or tell myself to be quiet.”—Staff writer Lindsay A. Maizel can be reached at lmaizel@fas.harvard.edu...
...frighteningly resembles Hugh Scully, an eccentric, bangled appraiser (Kimberly D. Hagan ’09), and a guileless bird connoisseur (Jon-Mark Overvold ’09) on a mission to get his nifty Parisian telescope appraised. In a brilliant moment, Overvold snaps out of a nap wondering, “Have I been abducted by carnies again?”In the best-delivered scene of the show, two elderly sisters (Zoe K. Kawaller ’09 and Anna C. Smith ’09) brought their “infectious attitudes” and a useless family...
...this," she says, surrounded by awestruck children backstage at the third show of Jamarama Live!, the first ever preschool-music festival to tour nationally. "I thought I was going to be carrying amps up a flight of stairs at 5 in the morning." Instead her show is over by nap time...
Many people who meditate claim the practice restores their energy, allowing them to perform better at tasks that require attention and concentration. If so, wouldn't a midday nap work just as well? No, says Bruce O'Hara, associate professor of biology at the University of Kentucky. In a study to be published this year, he had college students either meditate, sleep or watch TV. Then he tested them for what psychologists call psychomotor vigilance, asking them to hit a button when a light flashed on a screen. Those who had been taught to meditate performed 10% better?"a huge...