Word: schoolyard
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Minefields in the Schoolyard...
...School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences at the University of New South Wales, there's no doubt about the health benefits of good gut microbes. Harmful microbes will flourish, she says, unless enough beneficial ones are there to keep them under control. "It's like kids in the schoolyard: once the bullies are allowed to get stronger, the good kids go hide in the corners...
...infidelity, Allan's lyrics are more akin to Johnny Cash than the Klaxons. Current single Daddy's Gone is a stark rebuke from son to absentee father: "I won't be the lonely one/ Sitting on my own and sad/ A 50-year-old reminiscing what I had." The schoolyard taunt is made all the more poignant by harmonies soaring free from a Ronettes-style melody...
...March 2002, he and two other Senators were at the White House, briefing Condoleezza Rice, the National Security Adviser, about their recent meetings with European allies when Bush unexpectedly stuck his head in the door. "Are you all talking about Iraq?" the President asked, his voice tinged with schoolyard bravado. Before McCain and the others in the room could do more than nod, Bush waved his hand dismissively. "F___ Saddam," he said. "We're taking him out." And then he left...
What parents, who suffer all this pain by proxy, must realize is that they are never going to change the hard realities of schoolyard taunts and a thin-obsessed culture. What they must do instead is teach their kids to value those things less--and value other things more. Kelly Lowry, a postdoctoral fellow in the department of child and adolescent psychiatry at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, says the key lies in accentuating the positive. "Parents need to emphasize health behaviors, not the numbers on a scale," she says...