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Child rearing

The Edith project

In defense of old hypocrisy

It Sure Did

by Erica Heller,

“Something happened to my children that I cannot explain and cannot undo. I can’t be good to them, it seems, even when I want to.”—Bob Slocum in Something Happened, by…

New pacifiers for parents

by Ernestine Gilbreth Carey,

My son came late

by Charles Bonner,

Bringing up children

by Eleanor Wintour,

The American vs. the British way

Household French

by Norton Wolf,

Dead center

by Bernard Augustine De Voto,

Here and now

by I.A.R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie,

A word to parents

Where are the young rebels?

by Pearl S. Buck,

What the Young Man Should Know

by Robert Littell,

GLANCING out of the window, I can see the subject — and eventual victim — of this inquiry, dangerously perched in the crotch of an old chestnut tree, about fifteen feet above…