Word: parental
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...Energy, the diversified energy company based in Detroit that is the parent of Detroit Edison Co.--which provides electricity to 2.1 million customers in southeast Michigan who lost their power on Aug. 14--has profited richly, generating $425 million in credits in the past three years from nine synfuel plants in eight states. Yet the cash flow did not seem to help DTE prepare for crunch time in its main business. It lagged behind utilities in New York and Ohio and took three days to restore power to all its customers after the blackout. And it plans to charge consumers...
Which is exactly what troubled me in the lingerie department. It wasn't until we got to the parking lot that I did what psychologists say a perplexed parent should do: I asked why the underwear mattered and listened hard to the answer. Tolman calls this the "authentic ask." My daughter's answer reflected her sense of style. But for many girls who want thongs, it may be pragmatism: What else works under tight low-rider jeans? I gave the O.K. to boyshorts at $8.50 a pair. She's delighted. "Mom," she said the other day, "you really ought...
...Parents who don't want to overindulge their kids' inner Martha would do well to remember that imagination is free and often in ample supply in the young brain. When the trend watchers at Look-Look searched its youth network for cool room ideas, they found 17-year-old Sara from Los Angeles, who decorated every inch of her bedroom walls with graffiti. First it was random quotations and dates she needed to remember, and then she began inviting friends to adorn the walls with excerpts from favorite songs and books. "My bedroom is both a representation...
...laments, classmates there never asked about his life abroad: "I would say I was from Japan and they wouldn't care." Daniel had become?to use a phrase popularized by David Pollock, a consultant to expat communities?a Third Culture Kid, one who inherited the culture of neither parent but instead formed his own, more international outlook...
...Often, all is well until the fateful day when the parents decide they want to go home?but the children don't. Pollock, who explores this parent-child divide in Third Culture Kids: the Experience of Growing Up Among Worlds, explains that there can be a deep fissure between the country on someone's passport and the place he or she considers home: "Your passport tells you what country you are allowed to reside in. Your heart tells you what is home. Sometimes parents don't realize the depth of connection their children feel to the country they are living...