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...fellow single mothers to "stress the positive" with their children and emphasize how loved they are. She tells how her son, age 10, once commented, "Wasn't my dad silly not to want to be a dad? He is missing out on all this fun." Little did that youngster know it is precisely the desire not to miss out that is propelling women like his mom to take the bold, unconventional step of becoming a single mother...
...youngster with muscular dystrophy battles against "inhumane" treatment in nursing homes. Fred Savage (The Wonder Years) stars in this junior-varsity version of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest...
What is causing so much mental anguish? The sad truth is that a growing number of American youngsters have home lives that are hostile to healthy emotional growth. Psyches are extremely fragile and must be nourished from birth. Everyone starts out life with a basic anxiety about survival. An attentive parent contains that stress by making the youngster feel secure and loved...
Treatment relies on therapeutic drugs, reward and punishment, and especially counseling -- not just of the youngster but of the entire family. The goal is to instill in the children a feeling of self-worth and to teach them discipline and responsibility. Parents, meanwhile, are taught how to provide emotional support, assert authority and set limits...
...course, I never believe television anymore. But way back when--oh, maybe two or three years ago--I was an impressionable youngster. Imagine my horror, sitting at a cozy table for two at Skewer's, trimmed nose hair and clean socks, my eyes and hers meeting for a short, beautiful moment...and an army of angry white flakes storming into my field of vision...