Word: parented
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...University's Teachers College looked at the lives of 100 prominent Americans, ages 40 to 55, and found that those who had come from disadvantaged backgrounds were especially likely to cite the influence of a mentor as a key to their success. Sometimes a caring teacher served "as a parent substitute," says Charles Harrington, who co-directed the study. Sometimes the teacher provided an affirming "turnaround moment," for example, by standing up for a child and saying, "Henry wouldn't lie." That moment of validation, he notes, "transforms Henry...
...every parent has the flexibility to leave work at 4 and finish up late at night. Still, making the effort to be present for a child's victories and milestones is vitally important, says Robert Weintraub, headmaster at Brookline High, where Sarah is a student: "Parents must attend every event their child participates in--back-to-school night, plays, shows, games. The kids will say you don't need to come, but you do. It reinforces the importance of school." Just as important, he says, is keeping the day-to-day dialogue going, no matter how reluctant a child might...
Pleasant Rowland, a former teacher and newscaster, launched American Girls 12 years ago in Middleton, Wis., precisely to offer girls an alternative to the unnaturally proportioned Barbie. Yet in July, Rowland sold her company to Barbie's corporate parent, Mattel, for $700 million--and a promise that American Girls would retain its separate identity...
...exactly a ringing endorsement of your firstborn child. But CBS executives are trying hard to assure doubters that 60 Minutes Jr. will be a credit to its not-so-proud parent. The new show's executive producer is Jeffrey Fager, who spent five years as a producer for 60 Minutes and has been a hard-news champion as executive producer of the CBS Evening News since 1996. The new show will have an entirely separate staff, which means it won't divert resources from Hewitt's operation; yet more than half its producers have worked at 60 Minutes, which presumably...
...What's a parent to think...