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...these conversations and the very discomfort they arouse hold incredible possibilities for us, the parent and the child. Whatever I think of their mother, the reality remains that she is with those kids 24-7 and cares enough to get them mentors. It's natural to question people's motivations and even begin to make moral judgments. We're human and prone to do that, especially when we don't have the catch of an innocent child's face or the wrinkles and halted step of grandfatherly figure to check our pronouncements. The challenge is channeling that intensity constructively...
...mentee's mom (like almost every parent) and I have the common goal of enabling her daughter to grow into an amazing young adult: this is how we have been able to develop a relationship over the past two years. It's our responsibility as volunteers to consider the parent a source of wisdom about the six and a half days a week we're not there. To listen, ask questions, and share with parents the specific strengths and weaknesses of the kids we get to know. To visit and call when there aren't discipline problems, when there...
...want the creation of a super-ghetto school," said Douglas Whitlow, a Maynard parent on the steering committee. He said he favors the effort to bring in more white students to the merged school...
Above all, Titus subverts TV's definition of dysfunction: quirky two-parent home with a zany 10-year-old. Ironically, it comes as networks are racing to create new feel-good family sitcoms. Surely there's also room for one good feel-queasy family comedy...
What happened to Nathan King on his 12th birthday last month could be classified as a parent's worst nightmare--except that few parents could even imagine such a freakish accident. Bursting with exuberance, the Helena, Mont., boy bounced a football off the wall of his room, dove onto his bed to retrieve it and somehow drove a No. 2 pencil through his chest and right into his heart. "I kind of felt it go in," he says, "but it didn't hurt, so I looked down. Then I started yelling, 'Mom! Mom! Mom, I'm gonna...