From about second grade through high school, being popular becomes important to many children, but friendship is the thing that endures. While not being in the 'in crowd' might seem devastating, encourage your child to simply make good friends.

We are working on parallel development of ergonomic backpacks for everyone – from school children carrying heavy bags of books, a worldwide public health problem, to the normal backpack used to carry laptops, to hikers' backpacks to military and explorers. Everyone can benefit from a more ergonomic backpack.

We want all of our families and all of the children to feel that they're welcome and included there, and one of the ways to do that is to show different kinds of families.

Whatever we do for the children we do for the adults.

And I'll dance with you in Vienna,
I'll be wearing a river's disguise.
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder
my mouth on the dew of your thighs.
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,
with the photographs there and the moss.
And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty,
my cheap violin and my cross.

When she found out that she had it, she immediately decided that she would graduate high school. Even though she was in the hospital for seven months, bald head and all, she managed to graduate with honors.