Word: sonly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tears. "I would lose patience with him," admits Tom Terry, who excelled in math as a youth. "Comparing him to the ways I might have done things at his age didn't work." He had to learn to be less overbearing and to see things from his son's point of view. "We care passionately about how he's doing, but we're just calmer on the outside." Says Mike's mother Karen: "Kids are not vending machines, where you put in a quarter and then a certain product comes out. There's only so much...
...point with Manning and Leaf because their teams don't have better quarterbacks. For better or worse, they are the future of each franchise, and both Madden and Bradshaw say that although Leaf can throw the football to Hawaii, Manning is further along in geometry class. He's the son of Archie Manning, a heck of a quarterback who played for the Saints when they were called the Aints and fans wore bags over their heads, so Junior might have inherited some poise, a quality everyone is very big on in athletics...
...that he can devote more time to his new gig. The network has coaxed Evening News anchor Dan Rather to be an occasional contributor as well (he will continue to anchor both the Evening News and the weekly 48 Hours). CBS has also pursued ABC's Chris Wallace, son of 60 Minutes pioneer Mike, though it now appears unlikely that ABC will let him out of his contract. Current CBS correspondents Bob Simon and Vicki Mabrey are also expected to join the team. (A notable candidate left out of the mix: Bryant Gumbel, whose magazine show, Public Eye, flopped last...
...stereotyping. If girls are urged to catch up in math and join ice-hockey teams, boys should be encouraged to write poetry and take dance classes without being labeled sissies. Parents can enhance gender-neutral self-esteem by suggesting that a daughter help fix a leaky pipe--or a son whip up an omelet. "A little girl who says she wants to be a doctor gets a lot of support," says Bailey, whose Wellesley Centers are devoting their next gender-equity conference to boys. "But if a boy talks about wanting to be a nurse, the reaction is that...
Predictably, the renewed attention to girls has sparked a backlash. Parents are demanding that their sons be included in Take Our Daughters to Work Day. A surge of new books, such as Michael Gurian's A Fine Young Man and William Pollack's Real Boys, focuses on boys' emotional crises and academic problems in reading and writing. Researchers are exploring not just sexual harassment of girls but bullying and teasing of boys. A rash of school shootings by boys has brought calls to cut back on violent video games and provide more in-school counseling. And parents are objecting...