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...trouble forging intimate bonds with his family and friends. He is, Masaru says, a lonely guy: "The one thing I wish for him is that he would get closer to his family, especially the children." Beat himself concedes he has been an absentee parent to his 17-year-old daughter and college student son. "I didn't know how to be a father," he concedes...
...have a parent call looking for their child and have us in the dark about where the student is, when the University itself has been involved in hospitalizing the student," Lewis wrote in an e-mail...
Tonight, at the request of Mayor Anthony D. Galluccio, the committee will reconsider its decision that effectively supports parent choice in selecting their child's school at CRLS...
...battles a parent could think to pick with a teenage girl, fighting over what she wears should be way down the list. Teen girls are like total eclipses of the sun. If you look at them straight on, you'll go blind. Mothers need to see their girls through the filter of their own experience and try to remember their own instincts and attitudes as kids. It's pretty hard to look back at our adolescent longings and fashion disasters. It's even harder to let our daughters make similar mistakes--to be out in the world looking dumb...
...your daughter wants to dress like Malibu Barbie or Li'l Kim and you don't like that, you should help her make a different choice. When an eight- or nine-year-old girl picks an outfit that is just too outrageous for public consumption, a parent should acknowledge her decision ("Boy, I can tell you think that's really great!") and help her find a compromise ("...but let's just get the skirt today because I'm not so sure that top is good for a kid your age"). A young adolescent should start to learn about the signals...