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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Buell said he expects Bercovitch to return next fall...
...since vowed to crack down on the truant teachers. While their "behavior is unacceptable," he maintains, "parents are responsible for students many more hours than teachers and have got to do some monitoring of homework." But what happens when such home support is lacking? While their suburban peers return home to parents eager to boot up the computer to help with a research paper, many inner-city students don't have the same resources or have parents who are undereducated or too busy making ends meet to help with homework...
Brazelton agrees that the incidence of potty-related problems has been rising lately, but he ascribes it to a return to the old ways, not reliance on the new. "Working parents don't have a lot of time for a leisurely approach to toilet teaching," he says, and observes that many day-care centers insist that children be out of diapers by age three. Under this sort of pressure, he suspects, many are resorting to just the sort of rigid timetables Rosemond advocates. Like Brazelton, psychologist and child-care expert Penelope Leach dismisses the notion that laid-back parenting...
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Grant called the club's decision a return to tradition, but it appears concern over legal liability was at least a factor. Meanwhile, most club members said they were socially accepting what will be a drastic change...