Household Help
Most parents have tried it all. Chore charts, rewards, threats, punishment. We resolve to make our kids pitch in, then give up because they wear us down with their selective listening or irresponsibility. But chores and housework are part of everyday life. We prepare our children for life by sending them to school, but they should learn how to manage a home as well. “I worry that this generation of kids is going to think there’s a free ride out there,” said Georgette Constantinou, administrative director of pediatric psychiatry at Akron Children’s Hospital. She cautions that parents underestimate how important it is to have kids do chores. Local parents echo that sentiment. “When I was growing up, I had a lot of chores to do,” said Jen LaPlante, a mother of three girls who lives in Gustavus. “We lived on a farm, so we had animals to take care of and outside chores.” Start young, Constantinou advises. Make everyone accountable to be a part of the team that is the family.
» Full StoryRampant rudeness
Rude people: We encounter them everywhere — in line at the grocery store, sitting in movie theaters, even at our own dinner tables.
Talk to waiters, customer service people or your neighbors, and you’ll hear that rudeness getting worse.
Something fishy
Brightly colored fish dart among the waving plants. They swim between the rocks and nibble on their food at the surface of the water.
Members of the Youngstown Area Tropical Fish Society get a great deal of enjoyment from their hobby.
Breaking the chains of eating disorders
CORTLAND —“It’s just a potato chip.”
At a session at the Carolina House, a 12-bed residential eating disorders treatment facility in Durham, N.C., one single chip — not a handful, not a bag — was placed in front of each girl in the group.
Beating Bullying
It’s a common movie plot: the school bully, the victims take a stand, and often a happy ending.
» Full StorySpecial bowlers
Four times a week, Crest Lanes in Warren welcomes bowlers with special needs, including one group on Saturday that has met for the past 30 years.
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