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...between two families and two cultures. A parent wants him back, but politically influential adults say they can offer him a better life. This might sound like Elian Gonzalez, but instead it's the case all of Chicago was talking about last week: Baby T, the toddler taken from a drug-abusing black mother and given to a powerful white Democratic politician and his wife, a state court judge...
Jeff was an exceptionally smart child. Fed up with sleeping in a crib, the toddler found a screwdriver and reduced his jail to its component parts. He constantly built models, worked a Radio Shack electronics kit that Pop bought him down to the nubs and endlessly tinkered with stuff. When he was six, his sister Christina was born; a year later, his brother Mark arrived. When the siblings were old enough to get into Jeff's bedroom, he rigged a buzzer to his door that would go off like a burglar alarm. Later, in what his family has come...
...says, are the baby's genes and home environment. If you want your baby to be musical, keep music in the air. There is evidence that the order and predictability of music by Mozart, Bach and Haydn are easy for very young children to enjoy. Sing frequently to your toddler--The Itsy-Bitsy Spider, lullabies, Rodgers and Hart--remembering that young children's voices are pitched higher than adults'. When your child is around age three, let her explore a keyboard, listening with her as the notes rise and fall in pitch. Sing a note as it is played...
...Today, like every day, a woman and her toddler girl board me at the stop just past The Plough and the Stars. Today, like every day, all of the other passengers smile and coo as the pair finds a seat. The woman is pretty--fine-featured and petite; the daughter she carries mirrors her. I'm rolling along, enjoying this joyful maternal scene as much as the passengers, when they hit me: the shoes. The little girl wears pink suede Mary Janes with the red, green, yellow and purple images of ALL FOUR Teletubbies emblazoned on the toe. No! Their...
...feel bad.) We moms get caught in the tension between academic studies (and our own fears) telling us that day care breeds ear infections and bad habits, and equally compelling research showing that if we rear our kids at home, we retard their social development. We worry when our toddler clings to us in the morning--and when she doesn't. Add the risk of little Tiffany calling the babysitter Mommy, and you have the ingredients for a daily drama at the day-care door...