Word: parently
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Each year 250,000 adults succumb to sudden cardiac death. Now French researchers say the condition is probably hereditary. They followed 7,000 middle-aged men for 23 years and found that those with a parent who died of sudden cardiac arrest were nearly twice as likely to die of it--and at about the same age--as those whose parents died of other causes...
TRADE WINDS He rode the tech wave skillfully, but now Fidelity Magellan manager Robert Stansky seems a bit wary. Over the past few months, Stansky has lightened his tech load, from 25% to 20%, replacing Intel and Lucent at the top of his portfolio with Citigroup and Time Warner [parent of TIME's publisher]. He still has Microsoft, MCI WorldCom, AOL and Cisco (along with GE, Home Depot, Wal-Mart and Merck) at the core, a strategy that's working; so far, he's still beating the S&P, with a 12% return this year...
...educate us on the signals our children send before they fly off the rails. Does your child show an unusual interest in guns? Is he a bully? Does he have violent fantasies? Does your child seem sad or depressed? If so, he may be in trouble, and a parent should intervene immediately. When I hear this I think: Well, duh. And I wonder: Where were these kids' parents...
Most teenagers exist in a state of near constant mortification at the prospect of supervision by their parents. But surely a parent can risk his child's embarrassment, and his own discomfort, to get in his or her face a little bit. Surely we can manage to love them a little louder. To find the time to read their school papers, listen to their music, watch what they watch and get to know their friends. I have a memory of my mother, bless her, sitting at our dining-room table and reading the liner notes to Thick as a Brick...
...Every parent knows that raising children requires bicycle helmets, Beanie Babies, notebook paper, prayers, skill, the grace of God and plain dumb luck. But what many of us don't ever come to grips with is this: we must take responsibility for the world our children inhabit. We make the world for them. We give it to them. And if we fail them, they will break our hearts 10 different ways...