Word: preschooling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is probably no way to stop high schools from breaking down into cliques. We may be hardwired for it. As early as preschool, researchers have found, kids begin rejecting other kids. And even in kindergarten, children have a good idea which of their classmates are popular and which are not. But schools can take the edge off the situation through inclusiveness. "I can't remember ever going to a pep rally and having the skaters show off their talents," says Curtis Cook, a parent at Phoenix's Desert Vista High School. Says New York City psychoanalyst Leon Hoffman...
...even got sick in one of them," Will recalls. Soon his buddies started to get the message, and the school's Girl Scout, Cub Scout and Boy Scout troops joined in, helping him recycle hundreds of pounds of cans that netted more than $100 for Littlewood's Head Start preschool program...
...Italian educator Maria Montessori establishes her first preschool, in Rome...
...Blanks' vigorous workouts. Jackie Gradinger, 30, a veteran of the treadmill and step aerobics, proclaims Tae-Bo "the hardest workout I've ever done." She too is impressed by its effect on her waistline, but she adds, "I do it mostly for my mind." Lynne Devlin, 37, a preschool teacher who ordered the tapes in January, finds the mind-body benefits in perfect balance. "My energy is through the roof," she exclaims after the hourlong workout. "Now I can go clean the house!" And while she does, Blanks is cleaning...
...hitting, covering herself in Vaseline head to toe, day after day. He and his wife Charlene took parenting classes through their church and tried to be fair and firm. "We thought maybe she was just strong willed," Charlene said. By the time they put four-year-old Erin in preschool near their home in a town south of Los Angeles, "she couldn't keep her hands to herself," Charlene says. "She would hit other kids. And she would hug anyone at any time. She would hold hands when other kids didn't want to. She would do pesky, bothersome things...