Parenting Slow-to-Move Child Tips From Dr Sylvia Rimm
Advice to avoid labeling a slow child and to praise progress with timers. Emphasizes positive language, structured routines, and phased daycare exposure, suggesting parenting at home is best but allowing part-time care to ease adjustment and build confidence. Encourages flexibility for mothers to work if desired and notes gender role changes.
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Teens cash in on babysitting boom in Virginia
In Norfolk and across Virginia, families seek sitters to gain social life and freedom. A Virginia Beach surgeon pays a teen on call at night. a Chesapeake couple hires a teen for Friday hockey season nights. YMCAs offer programs like Parents Night Out amid rising demand and new caregiving arrangements with the Virginia Stage Company.
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Parents chase teen sitters for nights out at the arts
The Virginia Stage Company teams with the YMCA in Norfolk to offer babysitting during performances. Bill Dawson bought the package as a Christmas gift for his wife to enjoy The Foreigner while four children aged 6 months to 5 years stay at the Y. Teen sitters describe rates from 1 to 5 dollars an hour and say they guard their schedules, with many preferring weekend work.
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Pressures, Rejection Strain Couple Over Sex Needs
Helen, 40, a substitute teacher and mother of two, and Steve, 40, clash daily over sex and manipulation. Experts say mismatch of expectations fuels anger, urging offloading blame, easing pressure, and date planning to restore choice and responsiveness. Reprinted from Ladies' Home Journal.
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Helen
Abc Dear Abby letters on hotel pairing and gift certificates
Readers discuss a heterosexual man’s discomfort with a same sex roommate on a sales trip and the misconception that gay people are attracted to everyone of their own sex. Gift certificates praised as flexible presents for weddings, new mothers, and graduates.
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