Word: parentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simply cannot expect kids of those ages to determine the sort of education they need, unless they have some guidance. If this nation is not to degenerate intellectually and to lose its strength for daily life and defense against our enemies, the taxpayers, the school boards, the Parent-Teacher Associations had better wake...
...example of the challenge facing parents is Tigrett Industries' fast-selling Golden Sonic ($20), a 20-in. long spaceship that will stop, start or change direction at the command of a whistle; so intricate is its mechanism, which is activated by a sound-sensitive diaphragm, that it comes with eight pages of instructions. Fairchild's transistor radio kit ($8.95), which operates on power drawn from sunlight or artificial light, supposedly can be assembled by a nine-year-old, but it includes a booklet of diagramed directions that many a parent will be hard-pressed to decipher. Other toyland...
...Even the parent who decides on more conventional, nonmilitary toys will still have to deal with mechanized wonders, such as Knickerbocker's battery-powered organ ($12.95), on which a child can learn to play such simple tunes as Oh! Susanna, Noel and Home, Sweet Home. This year's line of autos includes Louis Marx's battery-driven car ($23.95) which can be ridden by children from i^ to six, and Ideal's clear-plastic model ($14.95), complete with electrical and differential systems, operating pistons and fan belt-130 parts in all for a parent to help...
...psychiatrists pointed out that during the war children often survived the most unnerving experiences psychologically intact so long as a parent was with them, but quickly collapsed when alone, the experiences becoming "enormously important the moment they break up family life." Concluded the psychiatrists: the "women and children first" rule should be modified "by insistence that a parent accompany the child, even if the only parent available be the father...
Like its successful parent, Truth trades more on parlor fun than private largesse, encouraging its 25 million viewers to get their vicarious thrills by playing Hawkshaw at home. The trick is for the panel of four (Polly Bergen, Kitty Carlisle, Ralph Bellamy, Hy Gardner) and home viewers to tell the real McCoy from a trio that includes two impostors or "side men." Each of the panelists is permitted a few questions to separate the cheats from the right chap, but the liars usually put on a more convincing act than the real item or "central character," and their own occupations...