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Among the images on a Best of Backyard Wrestling video: kids jumping onto barbed wire, setting opponents on fire and diving onto mattresses studded with thumbtacks. And the violence seems to be trickling down from teenagers to tots. Last year in Dallas, a three-year-old boy was killed when his seven-year-old brother stiff-armed him in the throat, copying a move he'd seen on TV. Emergency rooms report a rise in injuries among backyard wrestlers. "It's scary," says Colleen Toth. "But my son does everything to make it safe. If he's going...
...learned that Bambi's mom had been shot by a lone gunman. For many of us, it was an emotional rite of passage. We clutched a grownup's hand in the darkened theater. But imagine watching Bambi or Beauty and the Beast on video, not as a seven-year-old but at four, and without a parent present to explain the law of the cartoon jungle. Kids ages two to five spend an average of 1 1/2 hours watching videos each day, yet children up to age five need adult help to process what they are seeing. Children use stories...
...heavyweight crew won the Charlie Smith Cup by defeating Northeastern by just over a length, winning 5:37.3 to 5:40.9. With the victory over Northeastern, the men finished their third straight undefeated season on the Charles and beat Brown's seven-year-old river record...
...Before his parents woke up April 1, seven-year-old Perley King of Takoma, Wash., and his dog got into the family car and, using skills honed by video game playing, drove three miles looking for Cheerios. To make certain the boy won't get behind the wheel again, General Mills is giving Perley a bike and enough Cheerios to keep his breakfasts healthy...
...past. One August our older daughter spent a week cleaning a stable (cleverly disguised as "horse camp") near the cottage we borrow every summer. After we got home, she did a week of gymnastics camp, and she and her little sister went to Bible camp. This summer our seven-year-old plans to attend the town rec department's $50-a-week day camp. But her big sister was increasingly desperate to head for the hills...