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While Harris argues that there is little parents can do to mitigate the influence of other kids, Marano insists that parents can inoculate their children by giving them a solid grounding in social skills and helping them handle problems effectively when they arise. Teachers, psychologists and kids themselves tend to side with Marano and against the theory of powerlessness proposed by Harris. Parents are vital to a child's social well-being, they insist, and they offer lots of ideas about how parents can boost a child's success with peers...
Different kids will have different styles when it comes to money, but teaching them how to use it doesn't have to mean imposing rigid rules. When children like Ryan, Giselle and Danni have their own cash to consider, the good news is that they tend to impose those rules themselves...
...Physicians have legitimate concerns about the safety, efficacy and potential misuse of the herbal products that their patients are snapping up. More and more M.D.s, like their patients, accept that some herbal products may help where conventional treatments fail. The difference is that doctors tend to be more demanding of proof. Or as Dr. Yank Coble of the American Medical Association puts it, "In God we trust. All others must have data...
...movies tend to remind us of being in sixth grade again," says Frank Coraci, director of The Wedding Singer and The Waterboy--and, like Sandler-film screenwriter Tim Herlihy, a pal of the star's since they were all at New York University a decade ago. That's exactly right. The films are full of preadolescent aggression, exaggerated for laughs. In Billy Madison, Sandler gets his kicks by leaving a bag of flaming feces at a neighbor's door, saying the F word in a roomful of first-graders, mocking a stuttering boy. As a clumsy hockey player in Happy...
...experience, students tend to opt forthe cut and paste model...