Knowing children's preferences and reasons for them can help teachers and counselors to provide appropriate exploratory experiences, and to encourage individuals to assume some responsibility for self assessment and wise occupational decision making. (Author/CJ)

Discusses double role of women as mothers and contributing citizens of society. Emphasizes need for day care centers to free older girls and women for education and employment. (MS)

Most parents do not recognize the difference between school-sponsored tours and those sponsored commercially, because both may be advertised through the schools. Parents considering tours for their children should look into the qualifications of the sponsoring organization and chaperones, provisions for medical care, and other matters. (PP)

Surveyed 27 mothers to study the development of positive perception of their newborn infant. Results showed the relationship between prenatal attitudes and infant perception was related to mothers' age, mothers' tendency to use informational cues of infant behavior, and emotional upheaval mothers anticipate with the infant's arrival. (WAS)

The development of the modern myth of the American family and television attitudes toward men, masculinity, and fathers are explored. (JJD)

Argues that the organizational crisis and the crisis in legitimacy that face public education stem from a fundamental violation of the moral precepts that underlie our experiment in self-government. Citizens and parents have become limited partners in educational decision making. (JOW)

The author, the mother of a gifted child, recounts her experiences in coming to understand her daughter's needs and in assessing the ability of the public and private systems of formal education to contribute to her development. (SW)

The mentoring model, in which an "expert" develops an in-depth, sharing relationship with a student, is highly appropriate for gifted students who manifest strong performance discrepancies in academic areas, whose interpersonal peer relationships are weak, who suffer from a physical or emotional handicap, or are talented in nontraditional areas.…

Emphasizes the importance of motivation in improving academic achievement among Black children; outlines what Black parents can do to develop achievement motives in their children; and suggests that Black parents can generate a motivating environment by understanding how their children perceive the world. (MJL)

This brochure from the National PTA outlines the roles of parents and principals in the education of youth and suggests how they can work together. (JM)

Examined the effects of marital disruption upon divorcing men. Factors associated with poor adjustment included preseparation help seeking, weak social networks outside the marital relationship, difficulties at work and a continuing relatively intense relationship with the spouse and children. Suggests successful adjustment may require a set of…

Presents the results of a contrastive study of French and English advertisements directed at family needs. The study, based on the work of British students attending an advanced French course, analyzes male and female roles, stereotypes, and changes, as they emerge from the language and images of advertising. (MES)

A series of four parent newsletters helped one primary teacher explain how children were learning to write, the development of writing as a process, and what parents could do to help their children with writing. (RL)

An observation code was found to discriminate reliably between correct and incorrect behavior modification skills of 12 parents of developmentally disabled children (two to six years old). Parents were more proficient teachers after a training program focusing on behavior change principles and language acquisition. (CL)