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Oddly enough, slowing a stellar career to finish raising a family has never looked better. According to America's Research Group, a market-research firm, 32% of married couples with children think one parent should spend more time with the kids, up from 18% just five years ago. In this dotcom economy, lots of two-income families have accumulated enough money and workplace stress to act on that impulse. Throw in a few headlines about the dangers facing today's teenagers, and taking time off--or at least cutting back--seems imperative...
...fast, says Joseph Di Prisco, co-author of the smart, sensitive new book Field Guide to the American Teenager. Unless your teen is in serious trouble, he says, it's better to let her get on with the business of adolescence--establishing her independence--without a hovering parent. Even if you're home more, he warns, your busy teenager will be elsewhere...
...worst thing a parent can do when a child becomes infested is freak out. The best thing is be methodical. Deal with the child's scalp first, then launder sheets, pillowcases and towels, using high heat to dry. There is usually no need to dispose of clothes, stuffed animals, etc. Lice can live only about a day outside a scalp, so if the scalp is louse free, chances are the environment will be too. Unfortunately, any nits that remain can reinfect a child in a matter of days. Thus the importance of careful nitpicking (more on that later...
...Without any instruction, she tries putting them together. Finally, after a lot of trial and error, she assembles a little machine that actually does something. Much to her delight, it chugs along the floor like some fanciful arthropod out of A Bug's Life. As the precocious builder's parent, you would be proud--especially if you were told that what she did on her own has long eluded the world's most powerful computers...
...took State Department negotiator Dennis Ross several weeks to heal that personal rift, but it hadn't been easy. Feeling like a parent dealing with two angry children locked in their rooms, Ross abruptly left Jerusalem at one point to force Arafat and Barak to speak to each other instead of conveying messages through...