Word: sitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mothers of preschoolers now work outside the home, and many must compete for scarce spaces at day care centers or depend on strangers found through want ads. Kevin Becica, 31, a Cherry Hill, N.J., civil engineer, felt she was wasting too much time carting her youngsters to a baby-sitter, so she hired Sue Thomas, a trained and bonded nanny. "It's the most expensive kind of day care," she says, "but my kids are well cared for and safe...
There are good touches, such as a relative's loving hug or a baby-sitter's 3 tickle. "But if it doesn't stop or makes you feel uncomfortable," she says, "it's a bad touch," the kind that can give you that "uh-oh feeling." When that happens, she goes on, "trust your feelings. Say 'I don't want to,' and get away as fast as you can. Then keep telling your story until you are believed...
...minute film to be shown on Minneapolis television May 1. Touch, which has been performed nationally as a play for four years, is the creation of the Minneapolis Illusion Theater, a group that specializes in dramas about child abuse. Among its skits are stories about a baby-sitter who tricks a child into disrobing and a man who fondles his granddaughter...
...Bill's materials are based on the common finding that most would-be abusers back off quickly if a child issues a firm no. One parent told Martin that her five-year-old, a fan of Hands-Off Bill, said no to a baby-sitter who was trying to molest her. The child, added the mother, then showed the workbook to the babysitter, who read it and went for therapy...
...substantial novels made into movies these days? Perhaps because the printed page is a dominatrix of the imagination, demanding that the reader conjure up worlds from words, that he become a hard-working co-conspirator in the creative experience. Celluloid, by comparison, is a laissez-faire baby sitter. It asks only that the viewer believe what he sees, that he go with the flow of seductive images and return to intellectual infancy as a passive, pacified fun sucker. The young audience that makes hits these days out of laser shows and locker-room frolics seems bored with the notion that...