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...spreads, more are sharing that view. Tim McCord, a once traditional PE teacher from rural Titusville, Penn., runs a two-year-old program based on Lawler's model--and on a budget of just $1,000 a year. Setting a much needed national example, the decidedly working-class district upped the PE requirement for high schoolers to a daily 42 minutes starting next year. The CDC's Wechsler advises school boards to re-evaluate their priorities. "You might argue that you can skip algebra and do O.K.," he says. "But learning about how to stay healthy could save your life...
...working in Chicago, where a boy was beaten to death by two foster brothers who were known to be violent. It is not working in Bibb County, Ga., where a girl with cerebral palsy was placed in a home with a swimming pool; she was left unattended and drowned. And children are not protected in Dallas either. There two-year-old Joel Hernandez allegedly was beaten so severely that he had to be placed in a body cast. Yet social workers let him stay with his parents, then never set eyes on him--even after 15 visits to the family...
Gilbreania Wallace, a two-year-old African-American girl, was a ward of the Grace Home for Waiting Children, a private foster-care agency in Los Angeles founded in 1992 by former and on-leave bureaucrats of California's department of children and family services, as well as members of its Black Employees Association. They set up the Grace Home, hoping a knowledgeable black staff might attract larger numbers of African-American foster parents and work more efficiently with them...
...matter how long the co-sleeping period lasts, there will come a time when it must end. Parents should take the long view: unless they want to be sharing their bed with a thrashing two-year-old or negotiating with a recalcitrant four-year-old, they should move Baby to a crib by about age five months...
...that we're grownups, Antje and I don't get to share those rich chocolate moments anymore. She's a busy working mom, living with her husband and two-year-old boy a few minutes from the beautiful California coastline, while I'm still single and confused, living a few blocks from a Manhattan sewage-treatment plant. We call and we write, but we haven't seen each other in years...