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...book The Nature of the Child [BEHAVIOR, Oct. 22], Jerome Kagan is throwing out the baby with the bathwater when he discounts the influence of the environment on a youngster's development. Kagan's defection from the environmental camp may exacerbate the growing tendency to excuse parents and societies from social responsibilities by citing sociobiological theories...
...visitor remarks that nobody seems to worry about bears any more. "That's true," says Marino."They're not the problem they used to be. I went out the other night with a youngster who was visiting us and tried to find one. I couldn't do it, and finally I gave up and just showed him some tracks...
Your discussion of early learning aptly uses the term battleground to label the debate over appropriate kindergarten teaching. As with any fight, this one also has casualties. In this case, it is the youngster whose childhood is being invaded who is the victim...
These transmutants are so compellingly keen that Kiernan Rancilio, for one, forgot about playing with the motorized fire truck he received for his sixth birthday when he unwrapped his GoBots. "I felt so good when I saw them," says the Detroit youngster. "I carry them around everywhere...
While Prince Charles, 35, and Diana, 22, looked on, the youngster toddled over to examine a newsman's camera. Pointing at a microphone, he asked, "What's that?" (Willie goes sentences!) Explained his father: "It's a big sausage that picks up everything you say-and you are starting early...