Word: parents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Theorists about child raising have abandoned other old psychological certainties, including the overriding importance of toilet training. "The Scott-tissue theory of personality is out of fashion," says Harvard Psychologist Gordon Allport. Now there is more general concern about "total relationship" between parent and child. Sometimes the children themselves become ardent pop-psychers. "No one is more adept than a child at using psychological terms as a substitute for reality," says Chicago Child Psychiatrist Dr. Ner Littner. "Nine-and ten-year-olds chatter away quite happily about sibling rivalry, talking of the urge they have to kill an older brother...
...Wood mentioned Exodus, a project that buses Negro students to white schools, as one of the Roxbury organizations which is both legitimate and effective. Wood, one of many parents interested in Exodus (he is not in a leadership position) praised its work. But if Exodus is "legitimate" it is also involved in the cross-fire controversy between those who think whites can work effectively in the Negro ghettos and those whose hopes have been dashed by experience. A Mrs. Butler, a parent worker at Exodus, said: "It seems silly. We're just people working together, it doesn't make...
College for Profit. Gibson accounts for about 50% of Hupp sales, and although the parent company showed a $2,600,000 net loss last year, nobody-except perhaps a disgruntled stockholder or two-frets about the expenses of the yearly travel. Neither does the Internal Revenue Service, which accepts it as a business expense. Early mornings are devoted to sales pep talks at "The Gibson College for Profit"; the college awards diplomas. Gibson President Charles J. Gibson Jr., 46, holds awards luncheons, hands out Hollywood-type Oscars to supersalesmen. "They go over particularly well with the womenfolk," he says. Each...
...tutorial program will also include trips, and conferences with the students parents. This addition is aimed at strengthening community and parent participation in Roxbury public schools, Duggan said...
Human Chains. But with crowds, the idyl became chaotic. Bands of enthusiastic gawkers appeared, manning spyglasses from behind the bushes; planes from nearby Half Moon Bay Airport began buzzing the beach. Then one outraged parent claimed that his 14-year-old daughter had been persuaded to disrobe in public while visiting San Gregorio with another family. The father tried to press charges, but the county district attorney's office ruled that the incident constituted neither lewd nor obscene conduct, and the case never made it to court. Nonetheless, the publicity put San Gregorio...