Cinderella complex n.— «Poor old Cinderella never intended to be a social climber—but her rags-to-riches tale has given hope to countless upwardly mobile little girls over the years. They should be careful, however, not to fall prey to...
global weirding n.— «‘‘It could be colder, it could be drier, it could be wetter, it could be warmer,’’ said Katy Moss Warner, the new president of the horticulture society. If you can’t exactly point to the climate changes as evidence of...
stim v.— «Mom’s 24 and also has a 5-year-old? Has she had any sort of counseling as to what it means to have a Down syndrome child? It’s crucial that she start now with what we call infant stim. We can teach her how to do it.» —“In...
dance of the lemons n.— «Instead, principals engage in what Stanford’s Bridges calls “the dance of the lemons” or the “turkey trot”—they transfer their incompetents from school to school in the wake of parental...