History Through the Eyes of a Frightened Child
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"Machuca," which is Chile's submission to this year's Academy Awards, is both sweet and stringent, attuned to the wonders of childhood as well as its cruelty and terror.
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"Has it ever occurred to you how astonishing Western society really is? Industrialized nations provide their citizens with unprecedented safety, health, and comfort. Average life spans increased fifty percent in the last century. Yet modern people live in abject fear. They are afraid of strangers, of disease, of crime, of the environment. They are afraid of the homes they live in, the food they eat, the technology that surrounds them. They are in a particular panic over things they can't even see - germs, chemicals, additives, pollutants. They are timid, nervous, fretful, and depressed. And even more amazingly, they are convinced that the environment of the entire planet is being destroyed around them. Remarkable! Like the belief in witchcraft, it's an extraordinary delusion - a global fantasy worthy of the Middle Ages."
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One family's struggle with their son's behavioural problems in mainstream schools.
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The walk to school for five Palestinian children has become so dangerous they require an escort from Israeli soldiers and police. Jewish settlers living along the path have
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For the few surviving inmates of Mauthausen concentration camp, one visitor in the autumn of 1941 left an indelible memory.
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A nosy parent goes where the kids are and learns more than just what her kid is up to.
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High levels of stress may physically scar a child's brain, research suggests.
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The gunman responsible for the April massacre at Virginia Tech was a sickly child &#151; shy, frail and leery of physical contact by the time he was 3. His teachers said he began showing suicidal and homicidal tendencies by the eighth grade.
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A 6-year-old Palestinian girl may be about to experience at first hand the gulf between care of spinal injuries in the rich world and developing countries.
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Since the shooting in the mosque, I&#39;ve been haunted that I have not been able to tell you directly what I saw or explain the process by which the world came to see it as well.
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Children learn about the world through a variety of sources, including  parents, teachers, friends, and the media. Although news gleaned from  television, radio, or the Internet can be a positive educational experience for  kids, problems can arise when the images presented are violent or news stories  touch on disturbing topics. Reports on subjects such as child abductions,  homicides, terrorist activities, school violence, or a politician's sex life  can teach kids to view the world as a confusing, threatening, or unfriendly  place.
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The story is about a boy who lives in a cupboard (i.e. "in the closet").  His Aunt and Uncle are ashamed of him because his parents were quite eccentric (i.e. "flaming") and they are deeply concerned and afraid that he will turn out just like them.  On his 11th birthday (i.e. roughly at the onset of puberty), the boy discovers that he is actually a "wizard", different in both style and substance from normal people, or "muggles" (i.e. "breeders").  The boy is groomed into his new existence by a large, hairy bear of a man who shows Harry a hidden underground community of "wizards" living right under the noses of the general population (i.e. the gay subculture).  Harry's first trip to this subculture involves traveling through "Diagon Alley", a play on the word diagonally (i.e. not straight).
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A fictionalized take on the youth and evolution of the famous South American revolutionary.
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"Hope's Boy" (Hyperion Books, 320 pages. $22.95), by Andrew Bridge: The initial allure of Andrew Bridge's memoir lies in the curious question of how a boy, taken from his mentally ill mother at the age of 7 and raised in a loveless foster home, could defy the odds and eventually graduate from Harvard Law School.
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By Donna Borak Associated Press  WASHINGTON - For every generation in this country there has been a war. And with wars come millions of records that can shed light on family history, detailing everything from the color of soldiers' eyes to what their neighbors may have said about them.
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A young inventor time travels to the future as the past threatens to catch up with him.
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Anxious about dwindling crowds and shorter attention spans, museums and historical sites are turning to special effects to tell their stories