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Dick Rennick, 60, and most others find, though, that a major benefit of such hobbies is stress relief. As a high schooler he cruised his town's hamburger stand in a roaring '53 Ford, juiced up with parts from the local junkyard. As a young man, with no money for a garage, he would jack up cars in his yard and tinker with them. Then, as his plumbing company grew successful, he found that cars offered an escape from work stress. "When you come home at 11 p.m., and you're wound up, you go in the garage, get your...
What makes a middle schooler tick? Linda Perlstein, education writer for the Washington Post, decided to find out. With the dedication of an anthropologist, she moved to Columbia, Md., an economically mixed, multiethnic community. For almost a year she lived half a mile from Wilde Lake Middle School and embedded herself in the lives of its students. The result is Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). TIME talked with Perlstein...
...works best when you include your middle schooler in the rule setting. You say, "O.K., it seems that your homework takes about two hours a night. You can do it a few different ways. We could say, homework first, when you get home from school, and then you're free. Or, do whatever you want after school, but after dinner, it's homework and no TV until the homework is done." If you let them make the choice, they're slightly more likely to do it. Also, don't force kids to do homework at their desk if they feel...
...those I had never explored. Shopping in SoHo, dinner in Union Square, bowling in Chelsea, preppy bars on the Upper East. All were fun. I found the same good food, the same quirky side streets and discovered the teeming city nightlife I’d glimpsed as a high schooler...
...chanting continues until conversation subsumes it again. A burst of cheering from the school’s main entrance upstairs heralds the arrival of a new middle-schooler...