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...experts, is to reassure them that their once stable world, rocked by a sudden calamity, can right itself again. Children too young to express complex feelings verbally will ask for extra attention in other ways--by regressing to immature behavior, for example, or temporarily losing skills such as toilet training, or clinging to parents or other caretakers. Older children, say psychologists, should be encouraged to ventilate their thoughts and fears. And for kids of all ages, it's important to restore a sense of stability by returning as quickly as possible to a predictable routine. For most children, says...
...only one could consistently re-enter an interrupted dream (complete with dream date) despite a falling green toilet, persistent household pet and ringing alarm clock as "Sleepy Guy" does...
...good number of them had to be repeatedly reminded to flush the toilet and wash their hands after using the restroom. Some hadn't been taught how to tie their shoes and had to ask classmates to help them keep their laces knotted. And one boy had a terrible cold but didn't know how to blow his nose. He sat miserably for a while until the teacher took him outside and taught...
...Pudding's harassment," Ms. Rose writes, unironically, "Hanks could not find an answer. 'You know, that's a damn good question.'" That Mr. Hanks was participating in a time-honored tradition of mutual ribbing--Michelle Pfeiffer said that she was considering using the Hasty Pudding Pot to help toilet-train her toddler--was obvious to everyone in attendance, or so one would have thought. How then to understand Ms. Rose's use of this quote? Was she deliberately, disingenuously distorting what Mr. Hanks had said in order to further her own sloppy sophistries? It is not a pleasant explanation; then...
Some other fire door neighbors take full advantage of their easy access. "We play a whole bunch of pranks on the girls through the fire door," an advanced standing the fire door," an advanced standing junior said. "We put Saran Wrap over their toilet seat, and they do stuff like put those rubber lizards in our beds. It's cool, though, we just hang out sometimes...