Word: toddler
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David Carkeet's first novel, Double Negative, was a murder mystery in which the only witness to a crime was a toddler who had not yet mastered standard speech. The story's amateur detective was a philologist who unmasked the criminal when he cracked the child's babbled code. Carkeet's next novel, The Greatest Slump of All Time, told of a major league baseball team whose polyglot members one by one lapsed into clinical depression. Although they kept winning, they doubted the value of victory when it failed to make them happy, and found themselves facing mid-life moral...
...like their country cousins in hundreds of similar toddler play programs across the U.S., these kids simply love the chance to burn off energy and master their muscular and coordination skills. It's no surprise either. Running, jumping, climbing and spinning around in circles have always been an indispensible part of childhood. And until the past few decades, they were an integral part of U.S. children's lives--playing out on the street or in the park or backyard after school and on weekends, organizing pick-up games of soccer, tag or baseball, racing around the neighborhood or going...
...most products already on the market. Narmin Parpia designed Potty Scotty, an anatomically correct male doll that pees water, after struggling to find toilet-training aids for her two sons. Julie Dix was inspired to create Taggies, a line of tactile blankets and books, when she noticed that her toddler son often preferred playing with the tags on his toys to the toys themselves. And Denise Marshall cooked up the Mac & Cool, a bowl that instantly cools a toddler's food, when she got tired of hearing her first child, Scott, shriek impatiently for his meal to be ready...
...only answer was that it was better than nothing. Despite the lack of supplies and equipment, small miracles were taking place amid the devastation. Using a bottle of mineral water sparingly as a solvent, a young Red Cross doctor patiently removed a stifling mud casing from a toddler, to discover a girl wearing tiny golden earrings. The doctor removed mud from the child's eyes and mouth, and was rewarded with a cry of "Mami." The youngster, named Sandra, was one of only five small children rescued Friday from the mud of Armero. A three-year-old boy was found...
...Family Games,” which featured a rather obvious criticism of familial roles and an ode to the multi-tasking role of the mother. From start to finish, the dance was distinctive, even beginning in silence while two dancers, dressed like toddler twins in bright pastel floral smocks, encircled the stage in a heavy-footed soldier-step, looking like mirror images of each other. After outlasting a program of seven relatively demure acts with soberly colored costumes, the colorful beginning of “Family Games” jolted audiences to sit up in their seats...