Frank McCourt's lessons for parents
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Best-selling author Frank McCourt was a high school teacher for 30 years. He thinks that most children today are overstimulated by television, video games and material possessions, and therefore have trouble retaining what they learn. Here he gives advice to parents and teachers.
Publication Name: McCall's
Subject: Arts and entertainment industries
ISSN: 0024-8908
Year: 1998
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A really special delivery
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Rhonda Nichols and her daughter Christina White had their babies on the same day. Both were driven to the hospital in the same car and delivered their babies within four hours of one another. The women are certain that their daughters will become as close as sisters.
Publication Name: McCall's
Subject: Arts and entertainment industries
ISSN: 0024-8908
Year: 1997
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Really special deliveries: heartwarming stories of kids who arrived in some very surprising ways
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Stories of babies delivered under unusual circumstances include that of a woman who delivered her own child and of another woman who delivered her child on a routine flight to Orlando, FL.
Publication Name: McCall's
Subject: Arts and entertainment industries
ISSN: 0024-8908
Year: 1997
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