Word: parently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston Catholic groups to invite Protestant or Jewish speakers, and the cardinal himself recently addressed the Masons' Brotherhood Lodge (subject: ecumenism). In St. Louis, some Holy Name Societies sponsor monthly meetings of Catholics and Protestants to discuss theology, with the groups alternating in choosing the topics. Catholic parent-teacher groups in San Francisco have switched discussions from such themes as "Patron Saint of the Month" to "Communication with Non-Catholic Brothers." And the National Councils of Catholic Men and Women are distributing 20,000 "Grass Roots Ecumenism Kits," which contain six booklets on such topics as Jewish-Christian dialogues...
...preschool training is great for rich kids in nursery school and for poor kids in the Government's Head Start program, why shouldn't every parent get busy and give his child a head start at home? That reasoning, stimulated by parental pride and fear, has led to a barrage of books and packages that offer to help Mommy teach Baby how to read, add numbers and raise his IQ, even while he is sitting on the potty...
...almost evangelical ode to early learning by Physical Therapist Glenn Doman, who has been teaching preschool children with brain damage to read at Philadelphia's Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential. He contends that almost every young child has a "built-in rage for learning" and that parents have "a sacred duty to open the floodgate of all basic knowledge to him." Doman claims that a baby will take to the written word as easily as to the spoken language and can even learn to read before he learns to speak-if the written word is presented repeatedly...
...Many Vitamins? Educators and child psychologists are generally skeptical about the home-teaching trend, particularly the teaching of reading. They have little doubt that some parents can teach some three-year-olds and four-year-olds to read-but why should they? "No one has really given any sound reason for doing so," says Psychologist William Kessen of Yale's Child Study Center. Myra Woodruff, recently retired chief of New York State's Bureau of Child Development and Parent Education, believes that the real motivation for many parents to teach their tots is that "it represents status...
...generations, multiple-vitamin preparations of one form or another have been a familiar fixture on many an American breakfast table. Whether or not they are prescribed by a pediatrician, they almost always boast the kind of label that assures a cautious parent he is doing right by his child. The fine print spells out "Minimum Daily Requirements" in esoteric quantities such as milligrams, U.S.P. or international units, and the average uncertain layman usually decides that if a little is good, more is surely better. The business in vitamin and mineral supplements to the U.S. food budget has grown to hundreds...