Word: upping
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Sometimes less is more when it comes to parental involvement, say the experts. "We have to separate our children's responsibilities from our own," advises Nancy Samalin, author of Loving Your Child Is Not Enough. "If you're more involved in your child's report card than he is, he...
The Clinton Administration's noble goal of getting every public school online by 2001 has a downside risk. Up to 70% of the nation's 30 million schoolchildren are being given access to computers, but little attention is being paid to the kinds of equipment, including desks and keyboard rests...
Their reasoning, based on research in the U.S., Canada, Britain and Australia, won't sit well with many stepparents. "Because parental love carries with it an onerous commitment, it would be strange if merely pairing up with someone who already had a dependent child were sufficient to fully engage the...
GOING UP IN SMOKE Add one more curse to the experience of a horrible childhood. A study in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association reports that adults who had experienced five or more negative childhood situations--such as abuse, divorce of parents or living with a drunken...
TOBACCO, THE GREAT UNEQUALIZER? Lighting up may be riskier if you're an older woman. Women over 60 who smoke are more than twice as likely to get lung cancer as same-age males. Why? Women may be more vulnerable to tobacco's carcinogens, they may inhale more of these...