Word: parenting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Many auto industry observers believe that Volkswagen needs a replacement for the Rabbit, a move Industry Analyst Maryann Keller of Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins terms "essential." Despite rumors that a new model is on the way, company officials deny such plans. Insists Carl Hahn, chairman of Volkswagenwerk AG, the parent company: "We don't want to offer the consumer a new shape every day." Yet as long as Japanese and U.S. automakers can nibble into Volkswagen's market by behaving like sheep, it will take more than a wolf in sheep's clothing to revive the company...
Andrew Corp.'s dilemma was doubly vexing because its United Kingdom subsidiary, Andrew Antennas Ltd., had actually signed the delivery contract with Thomson. As a result, even as the parent company was being ordered by the U.S. to stop participating, the subsidiary was being compelled to move ahead by the British government...
...have suggested changes in the OB/GYN Service which address a number of issues raised by individual patients as well as by the Joint Committee on the Status of Women. The Health Service has responded by hiring an obstetrical nurse-practitioner who provides pre-natal care, offers Pregnancy and New Parent classes, and supplies appropriate educational materials. In addition, the Health Service has been looking into possible participation in the midwifery program at Brigham & Women's Hospital and is planning to employ a third obstetrician (preferably female...
DIED. Anna Freud, 86, pioneer of child psychoanalysis, whose theories advanced the work of her famous father Sigmund; in London. She opposed those who advocated the analysis of pre-verbal children and emphasized the purposeful care of parents and teachers. Applying in practice what she asserted on paper (in eight eloquent volumes), the self-effacing Freud established the first day nursery in Vienna and trained a generation of followers at the celebrated Hampstead Child-Therapy Clinic in England. She habitually shunned publicity and deferred to the parent whom she nursed in life and steadfastly defended in death. "I didn...
...reported a relationship between increased watching and decreased learning, between violence on television and aggressive behavior. Wilkins approvingly quotes Cornell Psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner, who once said: "The danger of TV lies not so much in the behavior it produces as in the behavior it prevents." Some examples: communication between parent and child, the capacity to entertain oneself, the ability to express ideas logically and feelings sensitively. Television, suggests Wilkins, does not sever children from reality, it becomes their reality, more vivid than the outside world to which it supposedly refers...