Word: parent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Children who return home to live with their parents [Oct. 13] are copping out in a way that is seriously detrimental to their personal growth and development. Even when live-at-home young adults are contributing money and labor to the household, the fact is that parents provide a psychological safety net whose presence can only serve to inhibit and dilute risk taking and mistake making, both essential components of learning about life and oneself. Living at home after graduating from college or getting a job is an infantilizing process that ultimately sets back both parent and child...
...anti-prayer buffoon. One NCPAC leaflet has Durkin teaching a class of children--two of the children are white, with books on their neatly ordered desks. The two Black children are unflatteringly depicted; their desks are messy and bookless. John Durkin, the leaflet states, casts "anti-child" and "anti-parent" votes...
Wakidi's family according to literature sent by the agency and tacked on the dorm's bulletin board earns about $12.80 a month by growing and selling spinach and other produce; the family's monthly expenses come to $14.41. Each parent in the Conant Hall group contributes $7 a year towards the difference...
Participants agree fostering Wakidi has helped create a family feeling in Conant. Last year Lhota bought cards saying "Congratulations--it's a boy!" and sent them to each foster parent. Developing community spirit tends to be harder in graduate dorms than in undergraduate because people spend less time in their rooms, he said...
...attempts to test new teachers before they teach have not fared as well. State legislatures in Kansas, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin have let competency testing proposals die in committee. Teachers' unions are generally wary of licensing, and have sought to ensure that teachers themselves control licensing standards. Parent-teacher associations often are afraid that state wide professional boards set up to judge teachers will destroy local control of schools...