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TV expert Ken O'Bryan: Parents have to be 'awfully powerful' to deny it to kids
TV expert Ken O'Bryan: Parents have to be 'awfully powerful' to deny it to kids

TV expert Ken O'Bryan: Parents have to be 'awfully powerful' to deny it to kids

Date5/23/1979
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Every corner drug store these days has books on child-rearing availabel to everybody. So how do today's parents bring up their young children - traditionally or permissively? Star staff writer Wendy Dey, left, and child development expert Michael Grapko, discuss these questions with parents who practise both methods. Dr. Grapko is head of the Institute of Child Study, University of Toronto.
Every corner drug store these days has books on child-rearing availabel to everybody. So how do today's parents bring up their young children - traditionally or permissively? Star staff writer Wendy Dey, left, and child development expert Michael Grapko, discuss these questions with parents who practise both methods. Dr. Grapko is head of the Institute of Child Study, University of Toronto.
3/6/1970
Expert advisers: Panelists (from left) Dr. Arnold Rubenstein, Tanis Sigurjohnsson, Keren Brathwaite, and Nels Auger talk to columnist Michele Landsberg about the traumas of going back to school and the problems children experience with other kids and thei
Expert advisers: Panelists (from left) Dr. Arnold Rubenstein, Tanis Sigurjohnsson, Keren Brathwaite, and Nels Auger talk to columnist Michele Landsberg about the traumas of going back to school and the problems children experience with other kids and thei
8/28/1981
Jonathan Freedman: Simplistic to conclude kids copy what's on TV
Jonathan Freedman: Simplistic to conclude kids copy what's on TV
1/12/1993
The waiting game: Street kids Eric March-Harris and Carolyn Henderson, both 17, want to marry and have a place of their own, but they're finding it a bureaucratic nightmare
The waiting game: Street kids Eric March-Harris and Carolyn Henderson, both 17, want to marry and have a place of their own, but they're finding it a bureaucratic nightmare
4/4/1989
Supports Pact: Six Nations Mohawk George Doxtater, with wife June, says Indians have long been treated like kids and that will change with self-rule.
Supports Pact: Six Nations Mohawk George Doxtater, with wife June, says Indians have long been treated like kids and that will change with self-rule.
8/22/1992
They cared enough to act: Huron St. public school principal Art Bussey (left), teacher Rosemary Kelly (above with class of children) have experienced the special needs of the children of battered women staying in nearby hostels, and pushed for action to help the kids. You need time, patience and good listening skills, Bussey says.
They cared enough to act: Huron St. public school principal Art Bussey (left), teacher Rosemary Kelly (above with class of children) have experienced the special needs of the children of battered women staying in nearby hostels, and pushed for action to help the kids. You need time, patience and good listening skills, Bussey says.
3/10/1982
Immigration woes: Suresh and Anna Murarka, pictured above with their children, Anil, 3, and Lin, 7, have been fighting for four years to bring Anna's parents and two sisters here from Hong Kong, but have been refused because one sister is mentally retarted and has cerebral palsy
Immigration woes: Suresh and Anna Murarka, pictured above with their children, Anil, 3, and Lin, 7, have been fighting for four years to bring Anna's parents and two sisters here from Hong Kong, but have been refused because one sister is mentally retarted and has cerebral palsy
2/22/1987
Won battle: Dashminder Sedhev's parents have been vindicated in their challenge to a private school's ban on the turbans Sikhs wear
Won battle: Dashminder Sedhev's parents have been vindicated in their challenge to a private school's ban on the turbans Sikhs wear
3/16/1988
Support for alternative schools: The real issue on private schools, says Lyle McBurney, is can parents have the freedom to select a school with a cultural, religious or special education dimension unavailable from the public system?
Support for alternative schools: The real issue on private schools, says Lyle McBurney, is can parents have the freedom to select a school with a cultural, religious or special education dimension unavailable from the public system?
10/14/1981
Michael Barrett, Chairman of the Sex Information and Education Council of Canada, here with his wife, Ann, and children, Heather and Andrea, says parents may have reservations about sex book Show Me, but they should be able to decide for themselves if it is appropriate.
Michael Barrett, Chairman of the Sex Information and Education Council of Canada, here with his wife, Ann, and children, Heather and Andrea, says parents may have reservations about sex book Show Me, but they should be able to decide for themselves if it is appropriate.
7/28/1975
Grateful Parents: Henry and Elizabeth Bechtel have had help in looking after their handicapped daughter Sandra at home.
Grateful Parents: Henry and Elizabeth Bechtel have had help in looking after their handicapped daughter Sandra at home.
1/15/1993
Working parents: Lynda and Gregory Myers of Brampton have had to take 4-year-old Brandon out of school because school bus won't take him to day-care centre
Working parents: Lynda and Gregory Myers of Brampton have had to take 4-year-old Brandon out of school because school bus won't take him to day-care centre
9/12/1988