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...just a few decades Sweden's small, once homogenous population has undergone dramatic transformation. While immigrants constituted just 4% of the population in 1960, today more than a fifth of the country's nearly 9 million inhabitants are either immigrants or have at least one non-Swedish parent. Prior waves of migrants, like the Finns who arrived after World War II, assimilated quickly into Swedish society, their transition facilitated by racial affinity and the fact that the dominant culture was never seriously challenged. Today's newcomers are more likely to be refugees from Africa, Asia or the former Yugoslavia...
...report published last month by Johns Hopkins University ranked Houston 28th in school completion out of the nation's 35 largest school systems, with less than half of ninth-graders at most of the district's high schools sticking it out through graduation. Says Guadelupe San Miguel, a parent with three children in the district and an expert on Hispanic education: "The high-stakes testing Paige has built his reputation on has come at a significant cost to the community...
...Some parents cling to the idea of punishment; they like the simple physics of it. A quick spank or a minute of time-out for every year of a child's age, for instance, seems like a just response to a transgression. But punishments that grow out of a parent's anger don't work because kids learn mainly that they can really make their parents mad. What kids really need to learn is good judgment: they need to behave well, not because they're afraid of being punished but because of how good it feels to do the right...
Wolf turns the idea of the time-out around, so it is the parents who take one. Once you have dealt with your kid's actions in a no-nonsense way, it is time to move on, but often children don't realize it. They will sometimes attempt to provoke their parents, just to keep their attention. A parent should not rise to the bait. "My wife and I had this thing we did with our kids when they were trying to provoke us," he says. "We'd just look at them calmly and say, 'Goodbye,' and then go about...
...smoke, you're not overweight and your blood pressure and cholesterol check out O.K. And yet, if a family member has cardiovascular disease, the odds are fifty-fifty that your arteries are silently clogging up too. Researchers found abnormal blood flow in 16 of 32 individuals with a parent or sibling who had the disease. The best way to rewrite this family history is aggressive prevention: exercise, diet and, in some cases, medication...