Regional School Unit 9 Superintendent Christian Elkington thinks district numbers are double those reported in a recent article.
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Utah’s ‘free-range parenting’ law said to be first in the nation
It all started when Lenore Skenazy let her 9-year-old ride the subway home alone. She gave him a map, a MetroCard, a $20 bill and – just in case – some quarters for a pay phone call, and left him in the handbag section in New York’s original Bloomingdale’s. It was all his idea. He […]
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3-year-old goes on ‘evil-villain’ rants. What’s up with that?
Our 3½-year-old is enjoying the boundary phase and being contrary. I don’t think it is anything out of the realm of normal, so I’m trying to not make a big deal of things. But there are times when it seems as if he is looking for a particular response. For instance, when he gets frustrated […]
Posted inLetters
R. Bechard: Feed your children
I read a letter to the editor, printed May 5, about helping stamp out hunger. I am all for stamping out hunger, but fix the real problem — the parents who are not feeding their children. Kids are going to school hungry every day. To me, that is child abuse and it is sad. One […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Safe or trouble? ‘Free-range’ kids wander like it’s 1955
LEWISTON — When Karen Lane’s daughter was about 3 years old, she wheeled her own little suitcase and carry-on through the airport next to her mom, the portrait of an independent traveler in miniature. An astonished stranger called out, “Does she carry her own skis, too?” Well, yes, Lane thought, a little surprised. If they’d […]
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Gray mother turns sleepness nights into consulting business
Jessica Begley geeks out about sleep. At least she does when it comes to helping parents and children have more rest-filled nights. Begley, a mother of two, recently became Maine’s first certified infant and child sleep consultant after graduating from the Family Sleep Institute’s Certified Child Sleep Consultant certification program. Soon after, she started The […]
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Survey: More parents believe their teens drinking alcohol
Parents, kids and booze: Experts warn that it’s not a good idea to condone teen drinking at home. AUGUSTA — A government survey finds growing awareness of teen alcohol use in Maine. The Office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services found a 12 percent increase from 2009 to 2013 in the number of parents […]
Posted inOur View
Social problems too often rooted in fractured families
We understand the tendency of newspaper readers to skip over unusually long stories. That sea of gray words on a big, white page can intimidate even the most diligent reader. That’s why we fear many people might have skipped over an excellent column in Sunday’s Sun Journal titled, “How to raise a dangerous criminal.” It […]
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Margaret McGaughey: How to raise a dangerous criminal
During my 35 years as a federal prosecutor, I have been exposed to biographical information about some of the most dangerous drug and violent defendants in the American criminal justice system. What has consistently struck me is how similar these offenders’ backgrounds are. My experience has suggested that four features commonly combine in lethal fashion […]
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Connie Schultz: Start planning holidays now, for the children’s sake
I needed lumber, and Charlie was the guy who delivered it, which is how we ended up standing in my garage chatting about hometowns and families until, out of nowhere, we started talking about life after divorce. Divorce that, in both cases, sliced up our families many years ago. No matter. One word and the […]