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Approximately a third of respondents who had tried to obtain the vaccine and failed described themselves as “frustrated.” But 91 percent of respondents who had not been vaccinated said they would try again this year...
...banks were less enthusiastic about changing the rules. In a year when the economy was slumping and consumer spending was way down, overdraft fees had become more profitable than traditional banking for half of America’s banks. After losing more than $300 million in the third quarter last year, Visa made a big push for its Visa check cards—basically just glorified debit cards—and recently announced netting more than $500 million this quarter...
...backlash against overparenting had been building for years, but now it reflects a new reality. Since the onset of the Great Recession, according to a CBS News poll, a third of parents have cut their kids' extracurricular activities. They downsized, downshifted and simplified because they had to - and often found, much to their surprise, that they liked it. When a TIME poll last spring asked how the recession had affected people's relationships with their kids, nearly four times as many people said relationships had gotten better as said they'd gotten worse. "This is one of those moments when...
...down. What could be more natural than worrying that your child might be trampled by the great, scary, globally competitive world into which she will one day be launched? It is this fear that inspires parents to demand homework in preschool, produce the snazzy bilingual campaign video for the third-grader's race for class rep, continue to provide the morning wake-up call long after he's headed off to college...
...embrace this rather humbling reality, it will be easier to follow the advice D.H. Lawrence offered back in 1918: "How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning...