Word: parentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distinguished company that made the house a delight to the young Wildes; it was "the smiling giant, always exquisitely dressed, who crawled about the nursery floor with us and lived in an aura of cigar smoke and Eau de Cologne." Unlike many another stiffly Victorian parent living on Tite Street, Wilde was always ready to romp with his boys, mend their toys and enter into their games...
...Ralph E. Moody, 64, became board chairman of Union Electric Co. of Missouri, a post which has been vacant since 1946. As the last remaining subsidiary of the North American Co., utility holding firm, Union Electric is scheduled to be completely on its own when the parent firm goes out of business next year. Since Moody became vice president in charge of operations in 1941, Union Electric's assets have doubled to $500 million. In the same time, power sales have more than doubled to 6.7 billion kw-h a year. Ex-Judge James Wesley McAfee remains president...
...Psychiatrists might be better employed playing in the backyard than uttering statements that are absolutely void of making sense to a layman parent...
...beginning to realize that there are no rigid prescriptions for successful personality development-as, for example, whether the child should be breast-fed or bottle-fed, given early or late toilet training, disciplined by spankings or not. These things have different meanings in different families. A healthy parent-child relationship is characterized by sensitivity to the child's individual needs at any particular moment [which may be] in the realm of freedom or control...
...Karl S. Bernhardt of Toronto's Institute of Child Study: "The rapid changes in the nature of advice to parents about child rearing . . . have led some to question whether parent education is desirable at all . . . Parent education which made parents more comfortable with their children, which helped them to understand them better and accept them more adequately could be valuable . . . Parent education which focuses too narrowly on techniques could produce anxieties, feelings of guilt and tensions in parents...