"Typical parental feelings paired with high foresight imply more kids than typical parental feelings paired with moderate foresight," Caplan writes.
Our kids were typical teenagers and had late night food fights in our kitchen.
"She was a young kid with typical teenage rebellion issues, but we are extremely close now," Ms. Capalbo said in a telephone interview Wednesday.
If you're what another parent of a child with special needs called a "parent of typical kids" how do you handle birthdays if there's a child with special needs in your child's class?
But according to a study of 1,000 fathers on "Fathering in the Workplace," fathers spent 2.65 hours with their kids on a typical work day (I'd estimated that I was spending approximately two hours with my daughter on a typical workday).
Mothers gossip about their children's teachers and where to take the kids for vacation — typical affluent parental chatter, but here it's nearly all conducted in French.
As to the plot of "Snow Day," which opens on Friday, here is the preliminary publicity information: "Meet the Brandstons -- mom, dad, three kids -- a typical American family from Syracuse, New York.
She found that when the children were between the ages of 3 and 5, parents more frequently described the girls as imitating typical kids and seeking out social contacts.
I imagine it would have typical kids' comfort food like beans and chips, fish fingers, mini pizza, with a soft drink, jelly and ice cream, something to colour in and some crayons to keep him occupied.
The twist here is that the twins couldn't be further from what we think of as the typical kids in their situation: they are both heirs to what used to be the Duke fortune, the same one that is behind the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (Doris was their great-aunt) and Duke University.
