Word: parenting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Market leader CNN (owned by TIME parent Time Warner) has its own problems. Its prime-time audience is the only one of the three to decline from a year ago. Yet CNN chief Rick Kaplan says the network will continue to stress the breadth of its coverage. "I don't want to put the network in a situation where if there's no news, we pick out the most tabloid story and talk about that for a whole day," he says. "Our core news viewer wants...
...study, conducted by Illinois psychologist Laurie Kramer and researcher Lisa Perozynski, identified three main responses parents have when they find their children engaged in a verbal or physical fight: step in and talk it through with the children, threaten or admonish the children, or do nothing at all. As a group, both mothers and fathers believed that helping children resolve conflicts worked best in addressing the immediate problem. Yet when they examined 88 two-parent families with one child 3 to 5 years old and a second child two to four years older, Kramer and Perozynski found that parents were...
Allowing sibling conflict to escalate, however, is bad training for the real world, says Kramer. Where else but at home could kids get away with screaming at one another or roughhousing? "Parents guiding children during conflict is so hugely important," Kramer says, "both because it helps kids learn important skills in handling disputes and also because ignoring them can sometimes lead to abuse." In fact, a 1994 study found that physical abuse among siblings was far more common than parent-child or even spousal abuse...
...house extracurricular organizations and serve as a center for student life. This decision came after surveying undergraduates on the question of how the money should be spent. The council's decision accurately reflects the wishes of their constituents and for this they should be commended. The University, a negligent parent indeed, should be ashamed...
That falls in the category of the psychotic parent approach. Some of my friends are even prone to this approach, and I love them for it. For some reason, the overreaction doesn't bother me as much coming from them. But from Mom, since she's always like that, whether I'm sick or well, I find it best to tell her that I'm great. Even if I'm about to keel over...