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Intergenerational Bonding
Dear Hassled: "Sit up straight, talk
slower, turn down the TV, quit picking
your face, and go do your homework."
When it comes to Intergenerational
Bonding, I only have one thing against our
younger generation, and it's this: I'm not a part
of it anymore. But the results are in -- The top
nonscholastic problems that schools report
facing today? Drug and alcohol abuse,
pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault.
The Biggest problems in the 1940's and
1950's? Talking, spitwads, chewing gum,
making noise, running in the halls, cutting in
line, not putting paper in wastebaskets, sticking
pony tails in ink wells. What's a pony tail?
What's an ink well? Well, let's just say that if
the two are in proximity, there is a moral
obligation for little boys to connect them.
Have you heard this question before?
"Did
you do your homework?"
Students whose
parents closely monitor their activities tend to
get higher grades (a firm grasp on the obvious),
according to the National Center for Education
Statistics, which studied 58,000 high school
students.
Some 88 percent of the "A" students
indicated the highest degree of parental
supervision. Eighty-one percent of the "B"
students reported their parents knew of their
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