Word: sonly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...raised our son with solid traditional values. And we sent him to a top-rated university. But during his first year there he came home telling me that we were all wrong...
...first lecture of the popular core class Historical Studies B-27: "The English Revolution," Baird Professor of History Mark A. Kishlansky spoke in front of a packed Harvard Hall 102. Matthew, his son, sat in the crowd to secretly witness his dad's shopping period performance. During the lecture, Professor Kishlansky went over the course's reading list and drew attention to a book that he authored. He encouraged students to buy his book not because it was the best source for the class or because he wrote it based on the class. "He said he was the single support...
...time," he says. "I might run into him or go to his office to say hi and borrow his car. For a lot of people it would be a bugout, but it was something that I wanted." On the other hand, Professor Kishlansky thinks that he sees his son less often. "We share a printer," he says. "That's my way of making sure that...
...Kishlanskys fostered their son's independence and felt that it was important for him to make his own decisions. "We've always tried to let Matt learn on his own. We didn't manage his life at any point. We try to give advice," Professor Kishlansky says. Indeed, Matt had an unusual amount of freedom during his teenage years. "I had no curfew in high school," he says. "My parents were always generously lenient with me, almost laissez-faire...
...family dynamic, however, has been characterized by mutual support. Kishlansky still remembers with pride coaching his son to the Little League World Series. In the bottom of the ninth with the bases loaded, Matt made the winning catch. He may have been twelve and it may have been just Little League, but his father couldn't have been more proud...