Word: parenting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other hand," Allen says, "education is highly valued in the American Dream, and education can transcend inner-city violence, guns, substance abuse and single-parent families...
...Parent company Philip Morris, whose price cuts on Marlboros were monumentally successful, can well afford the gamble with cereal. A $53 billion packaged-goods powerhouse, Philip Morris is larger than Kellogg ($7 billion) and General Mills ($8.3 billion) combined. Cereal accounts for a mere 2.2% of sales and about 2.1% of operating profits, so the company can easily offset any losses elsewhere. For instance, it jacked up its cigarette prices 4' a pack earlier this month, a move expected to recapture some of the revenue losses from Post cereals. Just last week Philip Morris said its first-quarter profit rose...
What could lead a parent to such shocking behavior? Authorities believe Kathleen Bush suffers from a variant of Munchausen syndrome, a mental disorder that impels people to feign or induce illness in a twisted bid for attention. In Munchausen by proxy, parents may injure their children--smothering them with pillows, injecting them with poisons, mixing blood in their urine--in order to draw praise for their dedicated nursing of their offspring...
Like May, one need not be the stereotypical stage parent to feel torn between giving a child every opportunity and sometimes just saying no. When it comes to potentially dangerous activities, however, the limits should be obvious. "Seven-year-olds don't have the kind of judgment to process complex information and skills all at once," says New York psychologist Karen Zager. "Think of your typical young child. When he's watching TV, alarms could go off, and he wouldn't notice." Suggests Fassler: "If you've got a young child who is fascinated by flying, you don't have...
...hard not to say, All right, let's go through this again. The parent is the grownup, right? The one with the duty to love and protect the distinctly different one, called child; the grownup is the one who says no. Understood? It is not enough for a child to want something. The parent is supposed to decide whether it's a good idea--whether, above all, it is safe...