Parents in action: for every educational challenge, there's a parent willing to take it on: meet three who did

Article Abstract:

Parent participation often solves school problems. One parent helped to organize fund raisers so that the new school library would have up-to-date books. A preschool parents' PTA was organized by another, and a parent successfully organized a lobby for a new teacher at an overcrowded school.

Management, Innovations, Public participation, Community, Conflict management, Libraries, Parent participation (Education), School management and organization, School administration, Class size, Parent-teacher relationships, Parent-teacher relations, Libraries and community

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The weight watch

Article Abstract:

Pre-teens, especially girls, often translate the American obsession with beauty into anxiety about their own body image. Parents should praise the child's good points, point out other measures of attractiveness, present straight medical facts and examine their own attitudes.

Psychological aspects, Body image, Girls

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Voices

Article Abstract:

Adoptive parents Dennis Fong and Gayla Leung believe that a family can be built out of love, even if they are not bonded by blood to their children. Adoption makes them more aware that their child is a special gift that they should take special care of.

Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Adoptive parents

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