Thursday's article about one parent's struggle to get ready for World Book Day prompted many people to recount their own experiences.

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There's also an article by reporter Hiroko Tashiro, former head of the parent-teacher association at a suburban Tokyo elementary school, on the anxieties that her daughter--and millions of Japanese schoolchildren--face in the nation's rigid education system.

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As a social scientist, career woman (not gal) and parent who has been married for 20 years, I find Noer's article to be vicious and disrespectful to the increasing number of women who either need or want to develop a professional lives while successfully balancing their personal and parental responsibilities.

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