Bank of America, which absorbed Countrywide Financial, the poster child of bad paper, has seen its stock go up 80% in three weeks.
There was even a space to write what we wanted Santa to discuss, and a note saying Santa wouldn't scold or discuss topics that would make the child feel bad or sad.
If good behaviour is not being noticed by parents then the child will often resort to bad behaviour.
And every parent knows that the active ingredient of bad-tasting medicine has more chance of getting inside a child if delivered with the motivating ingredient of cherry flavor.
Education expert Eric Hanushek estimates that the difference between a great teacher and bad teacher in a child's lifetime earnings is hundreds of thousands of dollars.
That's not as bad as it sounds, since the tax will typically be at the child's rate.
He probably smells bad, but the only one who seems to notice is the oldest child, a girl, thirteen.
By simply visiting the Parents Portal on MEEPTablet.com from any device with a web browser (computer, smart phone, tablet), parents can not only hand-pick ("whitelist") which websites or keywords their kids have or don't have access to, but they can add words to the tablet's built-in "bad word" list so their child will not be able to search for those words or use them in the chat feature.
The wait at the Apple store was almost as bad as being stuck having to take a sick child to an an emergency room.
While fellow bubble poster child Henry Blodget was kicked out of the securities business after privately bad-mouthing stocks on which he had buy ratings, investigators never laid a glove on Meeker.
But it's not easy to reassure a child when parents are afraid themselves of the knock on the door with bad news.
One word on the trick-or-treating question: As a child, adults told me that bad people "often" put razor blades in apples, or put poison into candy at Halloween.
American parents can pretty much name their child anything, says Michael Sherrod, co-author of Bad Baby Names: The Worst True Names Parents Saddled Their Kids With.
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Parents who get that having a disappointed child who doesn't get his or her way all the time isn't a bad thing.
The most upsetting thing about many child-protection rules is they assume any adult is capable of doing something bad.
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As if things were not already bad enough, the World Health Organisation confirmed last month that an outbreak in Nigeria of polio, a crippling child disease it had hoped was on the brink of being eradicated, had reached Darfur.
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