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“Last summer I hiked all the time and had a great time, and I was not afraid of falling to the bottom of the mountain,” she said, laughing, as she recalled writing off her earlier balance problems as clumsiness. For years, she said, she just accepted that, despite all the time she spent practicing, simple yoga poses were beyond her.
“We want to help kids realize there are things you encountered that you thought you weren’t going to get past, but you did make it through,” Gillett said. “It’s really important, as I’ve learned from working with all of these psychologists, for kids to be able to tell their own story and have that vocabulary to say, ‘There was something hard and I made it through.’ So that when they go forward and experience any number of challenges, they have that in their memories to say, ‘Oh yeah, but that was hard and I made it through that. I can do it again.’ You have agency here. You have been really brave. Those are skills that are going to equip you in really powerful ways as you move forward.”
And my wife and I enjoy a good road trip: the podcasts (“West Cork,” this time), the pit stops and the way the miles roll by like life, slowly in the moment and then, with the steady application of foot to gas pedal, suddenly they are in the rear view. We treat ourselves, inevitably, to cheddar cheese Combos, a food we eat only on road trips, just as Food Network is a channel we watch only in hotel rooms. We read many of the signs out loud to one another, even though it is a thing our kids make fun of us for doing.
Chicago Public Schools clerk Judy Mahoney exits her home in La Grange on May 12, 2021, on her way to work in Chicago. Mahoney is fighting to keep her job, which is being eliminated at Byrne Elementary School. Mahoney uses a wheelchair after her car was struck by a drunk driver in 2017. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
Recent research focuses on inferior screening as one of the reasons African American women are more likely to die of breast cancer than white women. For instance, Black women are less likely to get 3D mammograms, according to studies published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology and JAMA Network Open, and should be getting screened at an earlier age, according to Linda Goler Blount, one of the authors of the JAMA paper.
If these parents believe that you are overstepping (or if you have overstepped in the past), this offer could create a problem within their family. I hope you will be sensitive to that possibility, but … at 18, Jacob is legally an adult, and he should take the lead in terms of financing his college education.
“The placenta is like the black box in an airplane,” co-author Dr. Jeffery Goldstein, assistant professor of pathology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said in a statement accompanying the research. “If something goes wrong with a pregnancy, we usually see changes in the placenta that can help us figure out what happened.”
Gilbert Allen, left, and his brother Michael Allen are seen in Chicago on May 7, 2021. The two wrote “Brotherly Love,” a book that recounts that painful but transformational period of Gilbert and Michael’s life. The book is aimed at 5th through 8th graders, which is a population that Michael nurtures and cultivates every day as a principal at Oakton Elementary in Evanston. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
“We’ve got moms and dads that don’t really have any place to go besides bedside on that unit, so the beauty of being able to add a Ronald McDonald House environment … for families to step away a bit, have a cup of coffee, grab something to eat, take a nap and just get away from the beeping machines and the intensity of the unit to take a break is a great gift,” said Holly Buckendahl, CEO, Ronald McDonald House Charities of Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana.
In this Dec. 22, 2020, photo provided by Richard Chung, his son Caleb Chung receives the first dose of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine or a placebo as a trial participant for kids ages 12-15 at Duke University Health System in Durham, North Carolina. (Richard Chung)