Word: preschooling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took a hard look at the boy's preschool, in particular a corner of his classroom set aside as a kind of nature corner, with live chicks and ducklings. Fukuda knew that the birds had died before the boy got sick, but no one knew what killed them. The team swabbed the classroom floor to try to capture some of the virus, but found none. Although press reports suggested a close tie between the death of the classroom birds and the boy's illness, Fukuda says the source of the boy's infection is by no means certain...
...year in jail on each count (sentencing is expected next month). Shriver testified Monday that she felt like a "caged animal" when the two photographers surrounded her car and that she became "terrified" after losing sight of her young son Patrick during a chaotic scene outside a preschool in Santa Monica...
...Holden-Galluccio household in suburban Maywood, N.J., is unremarkable in most respects. There's oatmeal with bananas at breakfast, then preschool for Adam, 2, regular feedings for his one-year-old foster sister and bedtime stories when Dad returns from a long day at his telecommunications job. Dad No. 1, that is: Jon Holden and Michael Galluccio are a Ward and June Cleaver for the '90s, gay partners whose yearning for a traditional family of sorts--Dad, Dad and the kids--may have just transformed the battle for gay equality...
...tried not to put him into preschool," she says. "I'm not a fan of child care. I knew my son would be a lot better off in a home...
...object to the content of the new shows; it's the style of some of them that raises questions. Experts say that preschoolers are best served by shows that are slow-paced, repetitive and simple. Daniel Anderson, a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, has written extensively on children's television, has been a consultant on several shows and has developed guidelines for preschool programming. "The most fundamental principle is, make it understandable," he says. "It takes a lot of work to get writers and producers to understand what preschoolers are capable of digesting. And the second principle...