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...lunch, I found myself confiding in her about a romantic breakup I was suffering through. Writing autobiographical fiction, it's often said, is therapeutic for a novelist, but it's nothing compared with spilling one's guts to a live human being who is posing as one's parent...
...argues that putting children in charge of their own learning will improve our schools. Whittle envisions children organizing their own school day in classrooms with larger numbers of students; children contributing to the functioning of the school; children capable of tremendous focus and responsibility. As a parent of a former Montessori student, I can tell you that Whittle is describing a typical Montessori classroom. When we teach our children to think, to process and to be accountable for their own learning, they succeed. Montessori has been doing that for years...
...Provo, Utah, U.S. A Mother vs. the President Although I am not related to antiwar protester Cindy Sheehan [Aug. 22], I am ashamed that she shares my family name. Of course, I support her right to voice her opinions, but I seriously question her motives. I too am a parent who lost a son serving in our military. Also, I'm a U.S. military veteran. But I certainly do not believe President George W. Bush should speak to me personally to justify his decisions about the Iraq war. I believe Sheehan was anti-Republican and anti-Bush long before...
...psychologist at the Waismann Institute in Beverly Hills, Calif., because addicts really recover only when they're ready. So none of this is foolproof. Still, as we know only too well, whatever our child's age or our imagined level of control, there's nothing foolproof about being a parent. --By Francine Russo...
Although I am not related to anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan [Aug. 22], I am ashamed that she shares my family name. Of course, I support her right to voice her opinions, but I seriously question her motives. I too am a parent who lost a son serving in our military. Also, I'm a U.S. military veteran. But I certainly do not believe President George W. Bush should speak to me personally to justify his decisions about the Iraq war. I believe Sheehan was anti-Republican and anti-Bush long before her son chose to join the service...