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...blood-soaked battles and betrayals of the Old and New Testaments seem too remote to interest today's 13-year-olds, think again. Every schoolyard has a Goliath; every new friend is a potential Judas. In sermons pitched to middle schoolers, the analogies are pushed even further. Original sin, says Dietz, is like being born on the Titanic with Jesus as your only lifeboat. With adolescence comes new cognitive tools to explore those ancient ideas. "Along with the ability to understand abstract concepts, their sense of empathy is expanding," says Dr. Mary Lynn Dell, who is an adolescent psychiatrist...
...surprised at schoolyard bullying? We live in a society in which bullies win: the macho cops, cowboys and action figures of movies and TV. George W. Bush bosses the world around. We describe overbearing behavior in adults as strong, decisive leadership; in children, we call it bullying. Those who seek the cause of bullying need look no further than the tough guys our society views as role models. Madeleine Boucher New York City...
...surprised by schoolyard bullying? We live in a society in which bullies win--the macho cops, cowboys and action figures of movies and TV. George W. Bush bosses the world around. We describe overbearing behavior in adults as strong, decisive leadership; in children, we call it bullying. Those who seek the cause of bullying need look no further than the tough guys our society views as role models...
...between the legs; others threatened to bury her alive. "I believed them," says Song, a pretty, doe-eyed girl who suffered severe bruises and a dislocated jaw. She still can't talk about the beating without crying (she insisted on a pseudonym before telling her story to TIME). Her schoolyard transgression? Song's assailants thought the girl had insulted a member of their clique...
...years old. The only other career he ever considered was professional baseball, but that dream didn’t make it past the seventh grade. Every morning, Yannatos recalls, he would wake up at dawn to practice his instrument so that he could play ball in the schoolyard after class. He attended the Manhattan School of Music, and started his undergraduate career at Syracuse before transferring to the music department at Yale. He has since worked in a number of orchestras, countless festivals, and taught in several collegiate music programs...