Senior Opportunities and Services helps elderly find home helpers
Long Beach seniors turn to SOS for part time work and home help. Hildred Davenport, 74, found cleaning assistance through SOS after leerying ads. couples Joseph and Jo Kumpest, 66 and 65, use SOS to hire as a husband wife team. Cynthia Lobick, 62, blind in one eye, trains and works 20 hours weekly for shut in elderly. SOS director Helen Wakefield and counselor Muriel Perrin note two way system pairs helpers with elderly clients and links to CETA program. An open house 1:30 to 4 p.m. at First Street offices invites public to learn facilities and meet staff.
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Effective Parenting Starting a Child on the Road to Reading
This excerpt from Jon Baek's Effective Parenting argues reading success hinges on family support before school. It urges parents to read to children daily, provide varied materials, visit libraries, point out printed words in daily life, and use phonetic methods and games to foster early literacy and maintain interest through adolescence.
At Wits End Traveling Spouse a Liability
A humorous look at the burdens faced by a wife left to manage home life solo as her husband travels. The piece samples a week of mishaps and a neighbor’s comments, highlighting beliefs about working spouses and gender roles in a lighthearted, observational tone.
PTA to probe TV violence as six million strong rally
National PTA Secretary Ann Kahn told a capacity Anaheim convention crowd that parents must take responsibility for TV violence and push networks toward change. The PTA plans a July 1 program offering a six month probation and a secondary phase urging parents to pressure stations, advertisers, and FCC licenses.
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