Key Moments Series At A Glance

Sun., June 11, 2000

JUNE 11

Conception, birth

Children can get off to a good start, or a bad one, before they take their first breath as would-be parents face critical choices, from whether they should even have children to what they eat and drink during pregnancy.

A Deer Park third-grader had no voice in his birth mother’s decision to drink alcohol while she was pregnant. But every day he confronts the consequences of that choice.

JUNE 18

Bonding

Babies’ earliest interactions with parents can shape the way they’ll forever view this world.

JUNE 20

Ten years old

New parts of their brains come on line. Abstract thinking skills kick in. Kids form lifelong perceptions and habits.

JUNE 25

Seventh grade

Kids making the leap from elementary school can avoid a rough landing if they’re properly equipped.

JUNE 27

Times of loss

Children who suffer profound loss - death, divorce, abuse - are at risk for myriad problems. Caring adults can lessen the damage.

JULY 2

Affiliations

The day finally arrives when a child’s life is shaped nearly as much by friends as by family.

JULY 4

Rites of passage

Teens coming of age at the millennium must steer through more risks than ever. Parents struggle with setting rules and enforcing them.

JULY 9

Rootlessness

A child disconnected from society may take too many risks and grow into an adult who lashes out.

JULY 11

Success, failure

A life-changing conversation, a moment of acute awareness, choices bad and good. Adults look back on their key moments.

JULY 16

Forming values

Kids spend entire childhoods developing the moral compass to guide them through adulthood.

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