The Perfect ‘Teen Cave’ A9
As children enter their teens, it can be a challenge to keep them close—but not so close that they feel they lack independence. A solution to this parenting problem can be very concrete: simply making room at home. But the ideal “teen cave” is about more than interior-design elements.
A Modish ProposalMILAN, Sept. 24 Fashion designers thrive on a relentless quest to be modern. The word is never clearly defined within the industry beyond the fundamental idea that clothes should connect with the daily lives of the women who wear them. That simple goal, however, can be a complicated, and at times...
(By Robin Givhan, The Washington Post)
A New Fashion Catches On in Paris: Cheap Bicycle Rentals
PARIS — They’re clunky, heavy and ugly, but they have become modish — and they are not this season’s platform shoes.
Google Offers Fee-Based Storage Rental
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Gmail and Picasa Web Albums users now may purchase additional storage from Google when they reach their limit on free services. Google is offering Gmail and ...
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Gmail and Picasa Web Albums users now may purchase additional storage from Google when they reach their limit on free services. Google is offering Gmail and ...
In a blog posting Thursday, Google announced a plan that will allow digital pack rats to pay for extra storage for Google's e-mail, Picasa online photo...
The Growing Backlash Against Overparenting
By NANCY GIBBS
Overparenting got way out of control in the past generation. But now a band of rebels is trying to restore some balance and sanity to family life and help bring all those anxious helicopter parents down for a soft landing
parent
noun [C]
a mother or father of a person or an animal:
I'm going to meet Richard's parents for the first time this weekend.
parentage
noun [U]
When you refer to a person's parentage, you mean their parents and/or their parent's country and social class:
The novel starts when a child of unknown parentage is left at the house of the local priest.
She is of mixed Australian and Japanese parentage.
parental
adjective
connected with parents or with being a parent:
parental advice/influence
The government repeatedly stressed its support for parental choice in the selection of a child's school.
parenthood
noun [U]
the state of being a parent:
The prospect of parenthood filled her with horror.
parenting
noun [U]
the raising of children and all the responsibilities and activities that are involved in it也因此，《親子天下》雙月刊的創刊，就是希望為所有心有餘而力不足的父母和教育工作者們，提供知識的「後援系統」，方法的「交流平台」、以及情感的「分享社群」。除了每雙月出版的雜誌外，我們也同時提供「親子天下網站www.parenting.com.tw」，即時因應讀者需求。
《親子天下》的內容將鎖定「學習與教育」、「家庭與生活」兩大主軸。延續天下雜誌集團對教育領域的優勢：趨勢＆國際報導；但更強調實用、親和的資訊，切中家長與教師的焦慮與需要。
八 月五日的創刊號中，我們特別企劃「玩出大能力」的深度報導。急著把孩子行程塞滿、學習課程提前提早的焦慮父母們可能不知道，愈來愈多的研究證明，孩子「玩 得好」，才能「學得好」。有時間好好玩、自由的玩，才能開發孩子主動學習的動機，提升創意與創造力。從丹麥、英國、歐美各國到香港，都已經採取積極行動， 培養「遊習（從遊戲中學習）世代」。台灣的孩子會玩嗎？該怎麼玩、玩對了嗎？創刊號針對台灣國中小學生做了全面的調查，從國際趨勢到本國現況，提供完整的 報導。
pack rat
Informal. A collector or accumulator of miscellaneous objects.
A slang term for a compulsive hoarder is pack rat or packrat.
mode (FASHION)
noun SLIGHTLY FORMAL
be the mode (especially of clothes) to be fashionable at a particular time:
Miniskirts were very much the mode in the 60s.
See also a la mode (MODERN).
modish
adjective SLIGHTLY FORMAL
fashionable
modishly
adverb SLIGHTLY FORMAL
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