"Our study shows that competent kids can develop in most any family," said Ms. Hetherington, a flaming redhead whose accent still bears a trace of her Canadian roots.
Systems and funding should be put in place to provide these kids competent legal representation.
That goes to women who have the resources money, child care, ideally, a competent partner to escape their kids, however many there may be, and get on with the rest of their lives.
Your employer wants to know you're competent and you understand that kids are kids.
Last night at 2am I was analysing how terribly I played at Parkonians last Saturday and worrying about who I'm going to leave on the bench for the final – when surely I should be kept awake by more pressing matters: the Middle East, the point of voting Green, deciding whether to propose this summer, or if I'll ever be competent enough to have kids.
That goes to women who have the resources — money, child care, ideally, a competent partner — to escape their kids, however many there may be, and get on with the rest of their lives.
Starting with a basic comic conceit -- doofus dad; beautiful, competent, slightly daffy mom; cute kids -- that hasn't been new since Dagwood wooed Blondie, this show's creators add one tepid twist.
"If kids aren't competent readers in middle school, they're going to have a really hard time getting through high school and getting through life.
In my late 30s, Quindlen's example, among others, gave me the courage to go my own way and write books from home when my kids were small -- at a time when I was desperate not so much for life balance (the kids had a competent stay-at-home dad) but to be present for the every day in that rich, lovely, messy, boring and often exasperating chapter of life.
As the nature of childhood changes, should we rethink the areas in which kids need to be competent, and what represents real impairment?
