Anh and I hung out with the others kids in the basement, playing Atari and ping-pong and watching TV.
"If they reflect on their behavior, and they read about the experience of others, many kids will talk themselves out of it, " he said.
Yesterday, we put out a handbook to send to every school in the country to try to increase the ability of teachers and others to identify kids in trouble to try to stop these horrible, although isolated examples, when young people wreak violence on others.
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And somehow despite everything that's going on in your lives, military families still find the time to serve others -- coaching Little League, running the PTA, making Christmas special for kids with Toys for Tots, volunteering at churches and hospitals, mentoring young people, being role models in your own right.
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Why not, for example, stipulate that future grants will only be made in states that permit student results to be linked to teacher evaluations--now barred by New York and California, among others--and that give kids the right to exit dreadful schools for better ones?
Other new technology ideas we introduced included the first pocket hand held computers, the shiny aluminum Razor Scooter for kids, the first automobile radar detectors, the first electronic toothbrushes, and many others.
Others say the study sample sizes -- about 100 kids in each case -- may be too small to support sweeping conclusions.
But others are not so sure the coming generation will even want kids.
Or, in the case of the late Jaime Escalante, since his skill at teaching calculus proved difficult to transfer to others, in the future the Escalantes of tomorrow will teach kids around the world who will get their instruction from Apple Inc.
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But just think how many others missed out and how many talented kids never got the chance to show they could play at the highest level.
While some use it to cover their assets with a tax-free death benefit to their spouses or children, others are just as likely to go ahead and let the kids pay the taxes, the better to teach them a real world lesson on government confiscation of wealth.
But what Oprah and others don't quite understand, is that one of the reasons kids are failing, is because at some level, the kids themselves know that the schools are bankrupt.
They're the kids who are actually trying to learn something -- respect for others, at the very least.
As with many families around the country, my kids are starting school tomorrow (I know that many others have already started).
Nearly all the kids at Camp Quest say they find it comforting to be surrounded by others who share their lack of belief.
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These moms and others I met maintain their sense of humor in spite of the difficulty of watching kids grow up without their dads, having to explain why birthdays have been missed, why there's a war on.
Every week at its warehouse in Menlo Park, California some 10, 000 sheets of stamps, tens of thousands of posters and 20, 000 T shirts--almost every shirt unique and distinct from all the others--roll off the presses, sparkling with freshly printed images of cute kids, Disney characters, landscape shots and catchy tag lines (sample:"Not everything's flat in Lubbock, "reads the chest-high line on one).
Others want to end child labor by finding jobs for parents, thereby eliminating the necessity for kids to work.
Others may view Mud as nothing more than a scruffy murderer on the run, but the kids see him, at least for a while, as a romantic renegade living out a violent adventure in the service of undying love.
If couples want to have kids they should by all means do so, but not with the entitled view that others should subsidize their lifestyle choices.
Others give a more traditional one-third or one-half share to the spouse, with the kids dividing the rest.
"There are a lot of happy memories there for six young kids making their first team start and a couple of others who came on late in the game, " said Dalglish.
The decision won cheers from some -- and words you'd never say in front of your kids from others.
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