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...kids' diets, meals together send the message that citizenship in a family entails certain standards beyond individual whims. This is where a family builds its identity and culture. Legends are passed down, jokes rendered, eventually the wider world examined through the lens of a family's values. In addition, younger kids pick up vocabulary and a sense of how conversation is structured. They hear how a problem is solved, learn to listen to other people's concerns and respect their tastes. "A meal is about sharing," says Doherty. "I see this trend where parents are preparing different meals for each...
...family, Worth died on vacation in Cape Cod when a surfboard stuffed through the backseat windows jackknifed his neck. After the turn of the century, Bingham’s grandfather had seen two wives die. Two years before Worth’s death, Bingham’s younger brother, Jonathan, died at the age at 22 while climbing an electricity pole. And in 1971, Bingham learned he had Hodgkin’s disease, the cancer that had killed his grandfather.Bingham had to fill Worth’s shoes. In a Pulitzer Prize-winning story on the family, New York Times...
...later Newport, R.I. with his family, which had been influential even before the Revolutionary War. During his time in boarding school, Brown described himself as “hopeless.” “I was very unathletic, and when I was in school, I was two years younger than everybody in my class, so I got beaten up all the time, and I got laughed at for being interested in studying,” he told the Academy of Achievement in a 2001 interview. Following a year of studying art in England, Brown arrived at Harvard in Fall...
...class without saying who had written it. A VOICE OF HER OWNIn the decade after graduating from Radcliffe, Valentine married and stayed home to raise her two daughters. In 1965, she published her first book, “Dream Barker,” which received the Yale Younger Poets Prize, an award given to the most promising young American poet.Valentine says works by Elizabeth Bishop and “confessional poets” such as Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath influenced her early writings. But after her first collection, she says she began to “develop a voice...
...tumultuous lives. "We try to help kids realize that you're not replacing one family with another. You're building on," says Chaffkin, who counsels foster kids who are considering being adopted. Tina Juarez says one of the most important lessons she learned while raising SaBreena and the two younger children whom she and Stuart have also adopted is "Don't try and take their prior life away because they'll resent...