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Raising children alone and trying to forge a new relationship with another adult are at opposite ends of the spectrum of human experience. Any mother who has reflexively reached over and cut her date's meal into toddler-size pieces knows she has a long distance to travel between Happy Meals and nights of passionate abandon. And fathers who hire a baby sitter in order to get out for an occasional blind date--aware they will have to pay twice for the evening--realize that being "out there" isn't as free or easy as it was the last time...
...doesn't lift his feet, he feels the floor," says Ellie. "The only thing that's been hard for Erik is getting used to Emma's new toys--she leaves them all over the place." When it comes to posing treacherous obstacles, the Himalayas have nothing on a toddler...
...tiny toddler when Run DMC was on the pinnacle of their success. No doubt that during their time, Run DMC was something: first rap group to win a Grammy, first rap group to go gold, platinum, multi-platinum, first rap group to have their videos played on MTV, first rap group on SNL…the list goes on. But it is their 20th anniversary, and maybe their time has come and gone. Crown Royal proves their ability to make good music, but it still lacks the one thing that made them so popular: their original sound...
...Marsha Bristow Bostick of Columbus remembers noticing with alarm last summer that her three-year-old daughter Betsy had memorized an awful lot of TV commercials. The toddler announced that she planned to take ballet lessons, followed by bride lessons. That helped inspire her mother, then 37, to quit her $150,000-a-year job as a marketing executive. She and her husband, Brent, a bank officer, decided that Betsy and their infant son Andrew needed more parental attention if they were going to develop the right sort of values. Marsha explained, ''I found myself wondering, How wealthy...
...Hard as it is for parents to watch a toddler in torment, there's not a lot they can do beyond lavishing the child with plenty of loving reassurance and taking a firm but gentle hand when the object of fear - a bath, say, or the doctor - can't be avoided. It's only when extreme fears persist past age seven and significantly begin to affect the child's ability to function that clinicians become concerned. "When young children are doing well despite their fears, we don't intervene," says Phillipson. "When an older child starts to suffer at home...