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Over the remainder of her pregnancy, she attended group meetings in the hospital's adolescent playroom, sitting in a circle with other participants, while dietitians, social workers and even an aerobics instructor gave brief presentations and then opened the floor to 1 1/2 hours of lively discussion. Recovering addicts lectured on staying straight. A midwife running the parenting session gave step-by-step instruction on how to dress a child in a snowsuit to 30 young women, many of whom had never had a snowsuit of their own. "I learned how to feed my children -- how to fix a healthy...
...exploits that passive dark side: that moment, just after your mom shuts off the lights, when a T. rex leaps out of its wall poster and into your fevered R.E.M.s. And Last Action Hero taps the aggressive impulse: to engineer the apocalyptic collision of every toy car in the playroom. The two films may talk the parenting game, but what they show is the Big Scare and the Big Crash...
...prison in Danbury, Connecticut, where she has been studying for a high school-equivalency diploma. An expected favorable ruling by the judge, perhaps this week, would allow Helmsley to rejoin her ailing billionaire husband Harry and travel, presumably by limousine, to perform 750 hours of community service as a playroom assistant or clerk at a nearby health center...
...Cambridge Women's Center. Located in Central Square, the Center has provided services for women for almost 20 years. Funded through foundations and private donations, the beautifully restored turn-of-the-century house holds multiple meeting areas. Resources in the 14-room center include a children's playroom, library, kitchen and counseling room. Center volunteers operate a referral network, a newsletter and a choral group. No men are allowed in the Center...
...fathers grow ever busier and more pressed for time, they frequently resort to toys that do the parenting for them: the bears that tell bedtime stories, the plastic heroes who teach virtue. For many children, a toy whose nostalgic appeal and sheer pleasure lure parents back into the playroom may be the best present...