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Powell: I do not lose a lot of sleep about him late at night...
...metaphor for responsibility. The act of cleaning your own clothes shows that you are capable of taking care of yourself. Doing laundry is just like bathing. As a baby, it is impossible to bathe yourself, but as you get older, staying clean becomes your own responsibility. Most sleep-away summer camps provide a laundry service, because even as junior high school students, many of us are not responsible enough to keep our wardrobes clean...
...someone handed me a newborn child and sent me home, I wouldn’t have the slightest clue what to do. Though I’m sure I would eventually figure out how to feed and burp the child, as well as rock him or her to sleep, the goals of fostering good behavioral habits along with quality intellectual development would probably be lost somewhere between the baby crying and me trying to make dinner while finishing my homework. Good parenting is not an innate trait, and is even less so under stressful situations...
Many parents lose sleep over the riddle of their children's social life. What makes one child popular and another scorned? How can parents best foster social skills? What should a kid be taught about dealing with bullies, and when should a parent step in? These ques-tions are as old as families, but they're taking new form and fresh urgency in an era when schoolyard arguments too often get resolved with guns. A new book--Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children (Ballantine)--delves into these mysteries with uncommon sensitivity and intelligence...
...going. I became a fortune-teller, a hairdresser, a peddler of fake toothpaste and pink chiffon scarves. I helped make sofas in Guizhou province and fished for yellow carp on Qinghai Lake. In the cities, I would camp in flea-ridden hostels, in the countryside I would often just sleep on the ground...