Word: preteen
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...newest and most surprising at-risk population, however, is the kids, a group in which hypertension, until recently, could not even be uniformly diagnosed. Optimum blood pressure changes with age and body size, and what's right for an adult is wrong for a preteen, to say nothing of a baby. A 2-year-old girl in the 50th percentile for height may have an average blood pressure of just 88/45. That same girl at age 10 should be up to 102/60, still far below the traditional adult benchmark of 120/80. The NHLBI now recommends making blood-pressure readings...
...write about tweening. What is it? Tweening is the marketing of sexually revealing clothing to kids, along with teen music, makeup to girls, more violent toys to younger boys and so forth. A tween is what years ago used to be called a preteen. Some marketers have even stretched the concept of tween down to 6-year-olds...
...around the country, more kids find themselves shuttling between quietly seething--or outwardly warring--parents. Mom has to raise her darling baby boy with her bitterest enemy. Dad has to negotiate ballet pickups and preteen dating policies with an ex he would rather forget. According to Isolina Ricci, author of the groundbreaking book Mom's House, Dad's House: Making Two Homes for Your Childpublished in 1980, shortly after joint custody entered the legal system10% to 12% of divorcing parents continue to be hostile after their marriage is over. Today, she says, "learning how to navigate joint custody has become...
...Room,” this Open Mic night seems an awful lot like those of yore. Rather than being disappointed, though, let’s be encouraged. In a month that celebrates awareness and promotes acceptance, recognizing that BGLTSA students at Harvard are so similar to a bunch of preteen rock star wannabes leads to further realization that we may all be more alike than we thought...
Despite living the preteen dream, the cast members grow restless. In between chatting up devoted fans, Randy doodles beards and breasts on promotional pictures of fellow cast members. Cameran gets up close and personal with a poster of Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady from the JAMN 94.5 table. “Children, children behave,” Craig Goldstein, a promotional consultant for the event from Universal Consulting Group, sternly warns...