Man a special creature

Children in War I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the suffering of millions, and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty, too, will end. These are the words of a 15-year-old girl written more than 50 years ago in the Netherlands, by Anne Frank , who died shortly afterwards in a Nazi concentration camp. Since 1980 world child mortality rates have fallen by about 50 per cent, basic immunization has saved the lives of about 20 million children. Officially, t he Convention on the Rights of the Child of 1990 had been ratified by 179 countries as of the end of September 1995. Concerned, love and respect for children is the key to humanitarian and political progress for children. Human struggles for resources and survival caused disputes, either ethnic or religious character, is a common phenomenon. War and conflict has escalat...

A.    Letting Go of Your Teen       Many struggles of adolescence   occur because we parents   are conflicted about our children growing up. The desire to keep things the way they've been, or an unwillingness to accept our adolescents' need for independence, may get in the way of propelling them toward a well-adjusted adulthood.       The intensity of the love for our children could actually hurt them , but feel empty without them, to gain by preventing them from standing on their own. There is an inherent conflict of interest between what we intellectually know is best for our teens and what we emotionally feel might be best for us. §   Your teenager is in the process of moving away from you a developmental individuating . It means your child is doing the following: o      disconnecting o      leaving the nest o      launching o...