Word: parented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best policy. Well, what's the second-best policy? Omission, because kids are so much better off not knowing everything about you. Authority flows more easily when there is some mystery about who you were as a child as opposed to who you are as the older and wiser parent they now know...
...never became my daughter's friend. It's tempting to do so when your offspring is crossing over from the things of a child to the things of an adult. I ruled out exchanging any confidences in the crossover areas of drugs, drink and sex, although a parent should counsel a child not to have any of the latter until true intimacy attaches or at age 25, whichever comes later...
...knew Courtney wanted to hang with the kids who were most likely to be fast-tracking every experience. She wanted to do what everyone else was doing, to which a parent can sometimes only say, "No, you can't," and to the follow-up of "Why not?," "Because I'm your mother, and I say so." I might not stop her, but I would certainly slow her down. I didn't go the confession route, either. If you let them confess and you don't put them under house arrest, you are admitting your own waning authority, which even kids...
...water. A car driven by Cameron Douglas, 17, Michael and Diandra's son, got into an accident with a Secret Service agent's car. The agent was then dragged by the teen's car when he reached in to grab the keys. "Anybody who's a parent knows how difficult and painful [this] is," said a family statement...
...Browns will not have an easy time winning custody. In California, as in most states, the burden of proof is on the party wishing to take a child away from a natural parent. However, courts have become more flexible in recent years, and Judge Stock is reputed to be more amenable than many judges to granting custody to nonbiological parents. "The standard for removing a child from a parent is high," says Trope. "It requires a showing to the court that it would be detrimental to be placed with that parent. The evidentiary standard is also more extreme, almost like...