Word: preschooling
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...fans--2,500 of them at this show alone--come up only to her hips. "I planned to be a rock star, but I didn't think I'd be doing this," she says, surrounded by awestruck children backstage at the third show of Jamarama Live!, the first ever preschool-music festival to tour nationally. "I thought I was going to be carrying amps up a flight of stairs at 5 in the morning." Instead her show is over by nap time...
...feel bad for Berkner. It's cool to play preschool. Deborah Harry of Blondie has a Disney-label duet with Perry Farrell, who is better known for his not-so-Disney work with the bands Jane's Addiction and Porno for Pyros. Dan Zanes, former front man of the Del Fuegos, now makes albums with little gold PARENTS' CHOICE AWARD stickers on the covers. They Might Be Giants, whose adult tunes have titles like Your Racist Friend, now has an album about the alphabet. And with Jamarama, little ones even have their own Lollapalooza--a traveling music festival with sippy...
Abby Barnes joined Shipon-Blum's waiting list last fall, and her parents are buoyed by the hope that they have finally located someone who understands their perplexing daughter--even if they have to wait another year or more for help. "Her preschool teachers ignored the situation and just thought she was timid," recalls Lisa. When Abby was 3, a well-meaning speech therapist taught her sign language, but her fear of speaking in public didn't go away. Friends tried to make Lisa feel better, telling her that Einstein didn't talk until he was 7, but she still...
...with their wealth. For the first nine years of their marriage, she declined almost all media interviews. She quit her job at Microsoft after she had their first child in 1996. "I wanted to have some privacy in our community," she says. "When I took the kids to a preschool event, a mommy-and-toddler event, say, I could be like all the other moms...
...trickle of capitalists, from telecom engineers to bottled-water vendors. And, perhaps most surprisingly, animators. North Korea has some of the world's cheapest cartoonists, typically specialists in the art of propaganda. In 2001 French-Canadian Guy Delisle went to Pyongyang to manage the production of an animated preschool special for French television. "It was based on children's books with rabbits," he says. "I don't even remember the name...