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Modern manners for kids
Teaching your child to use the right fork or fold his or her napkin properly may seem like a nice after-thought in today’s world, but modern etiquette experts say proper social graces can affect your child’s future. These days, etiquette classes teach children not only impeccable table manners, but how to develop skills that will help them network, socialize and interact with others as they...read more...// //Are our boys in crisis?
We've never had a female president, and most CEOs of Fortune 500 companies are still white men. But William Pollack says there's a ''boy crisis'' in America. As proof, he cites several measures: • In schools across the country, boys get the majority of Ds and Fs; girls get most of the As....read more...// //How to handle a mouthy kindergartner
By ANGIE WAGNER, Associated Press LAS VEGAS -- The other day my girls put on princess dresses and paraded around the house. "I look pretty,'' my 5-year-old told her younger sister. "And you look disgusting.'' I was so shocked at the comment that she immediately was sent into a time-out while I tried to figure out why she said those nasty words....read more...// //Autistic kids' behavior stirs furor
By DAVE KOLPACK, Associated Press FARGO, N.D. -- When a 13-year-old Minnesota boy was banned from church after parishioners complained about his behavior, it exposed a painful truth so politically incorrect that some people feel guilty just saying it out loud: Some autistic children can be annoying and disruptive in public. The case of Adam Race and others like him has laid bare conflicted...read more...Boys: Born to be wild?
By ZOE ELIZABETH BUCK, McClatchy Newspapers RALEIGH, N.C. -- Maybe some boys really were born to be wild. Researchers at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill announced this week that they had found three genes that appear to affect the probability of a life of crime. The study looked at roughly 1,100 boys in...read more...
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