Parenting: Children Can Be Better Off Ignored (The Lakeland Ledger)
Here's something you already know, but don't know you know: Children love to be ignored. Mind you, I'm not talking about neglect. I'm talking about ignored, as in being seen and not heard, out from underfoot, free to do their own thing without adults hovering neurotically over them making sure everything in their lives is all right and meaningful...

Mind Rot (MetroActive)
In ancient cultures, adolescent boys were required to undergo a transformation into manhood. Young boys embarked on a quest, were left isolated in the wild or buried alive. Returning victorious or dug up still sane, they were considered reborn, leaving their childish ways behind, becoming a warrior.

Ideas And Politics: Frenemies For Life (NPR)
Many voters and commentators responded to Barack Obama as if he were a candidate of great, big ideas — a transformational thinker, a visionary. But, by Obama's own account, he is a pragmatist, not strongly bound to any "isms."

Children don’t need constant attention (Macon Telegraph)
Here’s something you already know, but don’t know you know: Children love to be ignored. Mind you, I’m not talking about neglect. I’m talking about ignored, as in being seen and not heard, out from underfoot, free to do their own thing without adults hovering neurotically over them making sure everything in their lives is all right and meaningful from moment to moment.

Tonight's TV Hot List: Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008 (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
House 8 pm/ET Fox Is the House-Cuddy thing over yet? House pulled back last week, but we probably won't be free of it for awhile. True, the title of tonight's episode is "Emancipation," but it refers to Foreman, who's again trying to break free of House's control. You can imagine how that ends up.