Word: parente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parent but as a teacher, I can attest to the thesis of your Essay...
...Being an American Parent" [Dec. 15], that today's pampered youth yearn for discipline; finding it withheld at home, they often seek it in the classroom. Although it's In to complain about assignments and deadlines, most students, not yet ready for independence, find security in this kind of regimentation. Many a class troublemaker who harasses his teacher is selfconsciously pursuing a reprimand. I recall one unruly college freshman who came unbidden to my office with a plea that I shall never forget: "I know my behavior is lousy. Can you make me stop?" Yes, I probably...
...feel compelled to comment on the "disciple family." I would no sooner "save the hoot owl" with my family than I would "collect thunder eggs." And furthermore, my parents would not "hire a wolf to howl at the door" in order to have a common crisis around which the family can rally. If familial solidarity is dependent upon crises and thunder eggs, then I am all for a broken home. The very values for which the disciple family stands are, essentially, those values that the youth of today is intent upon rejecting. The value judgment that girls are not given...
That game - and dozens like it in 1967 - pointed up an increasingly ap parent fact of pro football these days...
...Between Parent and Child, Ginott...