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...There's really no mystery to the program's success, says Olds. Simple interventions, like encouraging new parents to show affection to their children or to talk to them more, result in exponential rewards for babies. In poor families, adults tend to speak to babies only to issue commands, in a business-only style of parenting rather than talking to children to communicate affection, identify objects, introduce concepts or teach language - a phenomenon more common in middle-class and wealthy households. Studies have shown that by preschool age, children whose parents gesture or talk to them less in babyhood know...
...Seuss’s classic tale. In addition to adding variety, the creative arrangement and interplay of ritardandos, accelerandos, crescendos, and diminuendos further the emotional component of “Green Eggs and Ham” and shape the plot dimension of the otherwise playful but repetitive rhyme.The biggest success of “Green Eggs and Hamadeus” is the appeal to a remarkably wide range of ages and its interactive, engaging presentation. The line between performers and audience is blurred from the beginning to end of the hour, and both children and adults alike are inspired...
...unrelated, resulting in two distinct works of inconsistent quality.The inferiority of the primary plot is due more to its execution than the narrative it attempts to tell. The tension between the two parts of Joshua’s life—his childhood in the slums and his later success as a lawyer—could set the stage for a movie on its own, as could his deteriorating relationship with his much-wealthier fiancé Linda (Ion Overman), who is also an assistant district attorney. By contrast, the storyline of Madea’s life and family offers little...
What are its prospects for success? Harvard students may well be lazy enough to make this site work...
...with a heavy reliance on a dreary guitar and keyboard dirge. The first half presents an anthemic quality that would have been fitting in such rock-parodies as Spinal Tap; yet halfway through the song, the chorus takes a cheery psychedelic turn. The album’s most unexpected success, “The Drop I Hold,” features Alexander sing-speaking over a lazy quasi-hip-hop guitar riff. The mix of the eerie synthesizer and subtle piano licks gives rise to a sense of pensiveness not heard on other tracks. Though it slightly builds cohesion...