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...This is the challenge to busy parents, working long hours, strung out at home. What would it take to create an easy, quiet space where you can just hang out with your kids, read a story or make one up, build a fort, make something goopy together? If in the process your children grow secure in the knowledge that you will forgive them for whatever they break or spill or forget, if they learn to share because you are sharing, if they don't have to fight for your attention, those skills may serve them better in the adventure that...
...travel agency, Holland has also founded a shelter for the homeless. ''I know that coming to Harlem shut the door to Wall Street,'' says he. ''But I can look at a healthy man, a full-time travel agent, who came through my homeless program two years ago strung out on crack. I have absolutely no regrets...
...trauma--a house fire, say, or a dog bite--may be more than enough to seize the brain's attention and serve as a repository for incipient fears. "Temperament also seems to be critical," says Craske. "Two people can go through the exact same traumatic event, but the high-strung, emotionally sensitive person is more vulnerable to the fear." Even secondhand fears--watching Mom or Dad react with exaggerated terror to a cockroach or a drop of blood, for example--may play a role. The journal Nature last week reported a study in which researchers performed scans on the fear...
...promoting homosexuality," which can get their licenses suspended. In schools, sex-ed courses focus almost exclusively on heterosexuality - the only mention of same-gender sex reminds students that it is against the law. Unsurprisingly, Singaporean society remains deeply conservative: in November, an Anglican church in the Queenstown district strung a banner across its faCade, proclaiming that HOMOSEXUALS CAN CHANGE...
...good idea to rearrange the furniture throughout the house, so that the paths between rooms are free of obstructions. Also, make sure telephone and appliance cords aren't strung across common walkways, where they can be tripped over...