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...issue, the last-one-picked-for-the-team issue, the clothes-shopping issue and, alas, the meanness issue. Being an overweight kid is often painful. Other kids can be cruel; even teachers can be biased. And, let's face it, a blubbery kid is a bad reflection on the parent. It suggests too much junk food in the pantry, too much time in front of the TV and other failures of parental oversight. For a parent who also carries too many pounds, it's one more thing to feel awful about...
Thank you for your insightful article. Those of us who are attempting to parent teenage offspring can firmly attest to the mystifying ways of the adolescent mind. The child you have loved and nurtured for years suddenly morphs into an exasperating stranger! Research showing that teens' brains are not fully developed, mature organs but continue to undergo structural changes up to age 25 is truly a relief for those of us who have agonized over a teenager's predilection for risk taking, impulsive behavior and overriding lack of good judgment. This research frees us to be patient rather than react...
Looks like MADONNA'S stuck between rock music and a hard place. Warner Music (recently sold by TIME's parent Time Warner), her long-time record label, has sued her over Maverick Records, the boutique label they co-own. The partnership expires this year, and one side is supposed to buy out the other. Warner claims that Maverick--whose biggest success was Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill in 1995--has lost more than $60 million since 1999 and demands Madonna repay $92.5 million before she buys the label. Madonna's side says Warner miscalculated Maverick's earnings and hasn...
...Being a parent brings out the most extreme traits in all of us--capacities for love, fear, persistence you never knew you had--and those traits are only magnified when a kid is in danger. You stay up all night when your daughter spikes a 101° fever. You drive across town in five minutes flat when your son falls out of a tree. But parenting a child who has a serious genetic disease transcends that entirely, as movies like Lorenzo's Oil have shown. It turns Clark Kents into Supermen and former science-phobes into experts in molecular biology...
...travel industry has already discovered that gays and lesbians are big spenders, representing a $54.1 billion travel market. Now it is learning that where there's a gay parent, there's often a grandparent or two, eager to spend quality, flack-free time with the grandkids. Olivia and R Family are casting a wide net to welcome straight friends and relatives to all their activities. Olivia's president, Judy Dlugacz, 52, took her partner of 25 years, Rachel Wahba, their straight daughter Tiffany Cook and granddaughter Rebecca, 5, to Club Olivia...