Word: parenting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mocked the politics of "eloquent words" and "pretty rhetoric." To play up the contrast, he left behind everywhere a blizzard of policy proposals--delving into the fine print of the tax code to propose new breaks for research, and advocating expansion of the family-leave law to cover parent-teacher conferences. But all the frolicking with Tipper and the five-point plans could not match the week's unscripted windfall from the House floor. This week Republicans handed Gore a break, but for his campaign to succeed, he may have to figure out how to make the next ones...
...friend Russell Simmons, chairman of Def Jam Records, the attack on Stoute erupted from a moment of superheated passion. "Sean is an artist, and artists are about guts and instinct and emotions," Simmons says. "He's not a gangster." Says Strauss Zelnick, CEO of BMG Entertainment, Bad Boy's parent company: "It's unkind and unfair to judge Puffy on one incident...
This combination of strict requirements and vague wording--plus a $100 limit on materials--forces kids to stretch their brains. And while each team has a coach, often a teacher or parent, that person is forbidden to give instruction. Says Arlene Cohen, 26, a math teacher who coaches John's team at Princeton Day School in Princeton, N.J.: "We're supposed to push them along but never give them solutions. Sometimes I have to leave the room to keep from blurting out advice...
...They raised their own children while playing surrogate parent to hundreds more," he said...
HELLO, I MUST BE GOING Feel that you're never around to see your kids? You're not alone. The President's Council of Economic Advisers recently quantified what plenty of folks have observed anecdotally. The rise in two-earner families, as well as single-parent families, results in parents' spending on average 22 fewer hours with their children each week than they did in 1969. That's almost a full day per week of lost parental attention. Fathers are actually spending slightly more time with their children--about two extra hours a week--than they did 30 years...