Word: parenting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...right in this town to search our kids without a parent permission," said Lawrence Adkins at a meeting of parents in the Cambridge Community Center on June...
Challengers include Alfred B. Fantini, a longtime Committee member who lost his seat in the 1997 election; Alvin E. Thompson, a former State House representative who lost his seat in 1998 to Jarrett T. Barrios '90; and Nancy Walser, a parent and author who "wrote the book" on the school system, A Parents Guide to Cambridge Schools. Melody L. Brazo, Shawn M. Burke, Donald Harding, Michael Harshbarger, Elizabeth Tad Kenney, and Jamisean F. Patterson are also running for the board...
Such unchanging details make Rowling's innovations in each book seem particularly dramatic. This time out, for example, third-year students with signed permission slips from a parent or guardian are allowed periodic visits to Hogsmeade, a nearby village known as "the only entirely non-Muggle settlement in Britain." Naturally, Harry's vile Uncle Vernon refuses to sign anything relating to Hogwarts, so Harry faces the prospect of missing the fun or finding a way around the rules. And Harry meets another little problem: a dangerous killer has escaped from the wizard prison of Azkaban and is reportedly...
When it comes to money, my parenting style lies somewhere between that of the Godfather and a game-show host: after the family's needs are met, everything else is negotiable. Periodically, I've taken a page out of the Good Parent's Rule Book and given my daughter an allowance, usually accompanied by a little speech about money management, the go-go stock market and the magic of compounding interest...
According to surveys, about half of parents don't grant allowances, and most others do it the way I have--haphazardly. Its proponents argue that an allowance can help a child learn about money, that he has to make choices among the many things he wants and must work and save for them. But there's a downside: an allowance can be a crutch for a parent. As long as the child can afford to pay for something--say, a barbed-wire wrist tattoo--a parent might be more reluctant...