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...lifeline, helping choreograph all the different pieces of a parolee's haphazard life. When Fedrick started her career 12 years ago, she had 35 cases. She used to drive parolees to job interviews and treatment programs; she would also refer them to an in-house employment counselor and a psychologist. But those jobs have been cut, and she has 75 cases. "The only time we pick people up now is to take them to Rikers [Island]," she says...
...Long Island contingent," as some call them in Princeton, are harbingers of a ground swell in retirement strategies. "I'm turning 60," says University of Chicago psychologist Froma Walsh, "and I'm hearing it everywhere." What she's hearing are schemes, sometimes in the fantasy stage, sometimes more fully developed, for friends to stick together even after leaving their jobs and homes. No numbers exist on this trend; demographers can't track retirement castles in the air. But talk to people over 50, and almost all of them have heard it from a friend--if they're not sketching...
...reuniting with friends from their youth, they're like lots of folks their age. "As people approach 60," psychologist Walsh notes, "they want to connect with people who were important to them in early life. I just had a five-day weekend where I saw both my college roommates and also had dinner with an old boyfriend and his wife. I feel as if I'm knitting together fragments of my life...
...keenly attuned to how many calories they need to grow and maintain a normal weight; they know when they are hungry and when they are full. But most kids quit listening to those internal cues by the time they reach school age. The reason? Parents, says Leann Birch, a psychologist at Penn State University. "There are things parents do with the best of intentions that turn out to be counterproductive," she says. A familiar example: insisting that children clean their plate, a rule that can teach kids to eat when they are not hungry...
Indeed, any program that treats kids successfully has to involve the entire family, says Leonard Epstein, a psychologist at State University of New York at Buffalo and director of one of the most successful pediatric-obesity programs in the country. "You really need to include the parents as part of the treatment," he says, if only because parents of obese children are often overweight or obese themselves. Usually, the entire family could stand to modify its diet and reduce high-fat foods and sweets. Epstein encourages families to build exercise into their daily lives, taking walks together after dinner...