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...What we're told is that you don't want to be a parent and you don't want to be a friend, but if you can find some middle ground, that would be ideal," says Roland Davis, who is entering his first term as a proctor...
...steer them home from the land of television? The Center for Media Education has published a pamphlet called A Parent's Guide to Kids' TV, within which are some helpful tips: Limit TV viewing to two hours or less a day and encourage children to match their TV time with reading time. No television during meals, before school and until homework is done. Prescreen and preselect shows to make certain they're appropriate. Watch with your children and talk about the shows. Don't allow sets in kids' bedrooms. Keep a TV diary to know just how much and what...
...thousands of other women believe the "something else" is silicone implants. Last week a class action against Dow Chemical, a parent company of Dow Corning, moved forward when a Louisiana jury found that Dow knowingly deceived the women by hiding negative information about silicone. The trial's second phase, which is to begin this month, will take up the most crucial question of all: Can silicone implants be scientifically proved in a court of law to be the cause of these ailments? At the same time, the case will test a more philosophical issue: How compatible in court...
...toughest parts of parenting is the seemingly endless series of decisions you have to make. Breast-feeding or formula? Cloth or disposable? Day care or the mommy track? It is not as though there is an absolute right answer to any of these questions--yet parents often feel the wrong choice could be disastrous. That is especially true when it comes to spanking. Every parent has been in a situation where a whack on the rear seems like the only recourse to little Janie's or Johnny's tantrum. But at least since the 1960s, the conventional wisdom propounded...
...ORLEANS: In what could set the stage for one of the largest class-action payouts in U.S. history, a jury yesterday ruled Dow Chemical withheld information about the potential dangers of the implants. Dow Chemical, the parent company of the implant producer Dow Corning, had claimed it had no involvement in the product's testing. The verdict in the first breast implants class-action lawsuit to go to trial opens the door for a complex legal process in which 1,800 women are seeking money for immune system related aches and pains...