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...something richer and more varied than either New Economy enthusiasts or dotcom alarmists have envisioned: the rapid--if still painful and uneven--merging of the old and new economies. That's evident from deals as complex as America Online's proposed $120 billion acquisition of Time Warner (the corporate parent of this magazine) or as simple as the act of buying a Pokemon video game or a bedding set from K Mart's website, BlueLight.com "What we're seeing," says Garth Saloner, a professor of e-commerce at Stanford's business school, "is the diffusion of technologies that were popularized...
Spencer had the lowest scores in town, so Brumby said yes. And by the end of that school year, townsfolk were slackjawed. The 400 Spencer students, many from homes in which neither parent could read, had devoured 25,000 books. And Brumby began thinking, WELCOME TO TIFTON, READING CAPITAL OF THE WORLD...
...parent, you can relate to the shock Tifton parents felt when, without threats, leg shackles, the smashing of TVs or the withholding of video-game privileges, their children began reading books before, during and after school. "It got to where you had to say, 'No more books,'" says Lenell Lindsey, a second-grade teacher at Lastinger Elementary. "You had to say, 'There's more to school than reading books all the time...
Some say, Of course: all parents want to be told if their kids are doing something wrong. Others say, Of course not: one parent's wrong might be another parent's "So what?" It's hard enough looking after your own kids without policing other people's. There's no right answer for every parent in a situation like this, so the best strategy may be to decide in advance what you will do if the problem comes...
Since teenagers tend to act out in groups, it's best to network with other parents years before the kids are old enough to inhale. According to Kate Kelly, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Parenting a Teenager, those early chats about play dates and carpools give you a chance to make your preferences known. Ideally your teen will come to you if she gets into trouble at a friend's house, but if you want to hear from her friend's parents too, say so early, especially since maintaining parent-to-parent ties gets tougher...