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The article recommends the collaboration between teachers and parents for Catholic education.

The article focuses on nurturing a self-reliant, resilient character in children. It is inferred that self-reliance and resilience are the by-products of daily life practices that nurture security, autonomy, initiative, and industry. It mentions some of the requirements for children to learn self-reliance, including figuring things out for themselves, being accountable, and accepting responsibility for their actions and inactions.

The article offers tips on how to Catholic teachers can motivate their students. The author states that teachers are the ones who complement the top role of parents in providing education and evangelization agents for families and children. To motivate students in Catholic schools, she suggests the promotion of positive and proactive attitudes in children, monitoring their daily performance and cultivating their social skills.

The article focuses on the sacred responsibility of parents and godparents assumed during the baptism of a child as they made promises in response to the faith questions contained in the rite. It explains the significance of the sacrament of baptism, highlighting the meaning and effect of the anointing with holy oil. Discussed are the challenges and duties defined by the anointing prayer for all the baptized, particularly Catholic parents, to imitate Jesus' roles as priest, prophet, and king.

The article discusses how parents and teachers can guide children and youngsters as they learn the various aspects of love. During reading lessons, teachers are advised to define the vocabulary in age-appropriate ways and engage children to make their own definition. They are also told to differentiate between the terms liking and loving. Consideration for the psychological construction of students from their preschool to primary years is also suggested.

The article focuses on tweens, which refer to young people between the ages of 11-13 years old and the schooling age of grades 6 to 8. Tweens experience varying changes in body chemistry, hormones and brain development. Age/stage-appropriate profiles and stage theories of development are made in an attempt to identify normal trends. It also discusses the different stages of tweens including sixth-graders (eleven-year-olds), seventh-graders (twelve-year-olds), and eighth-graders (thirteen-year-olds).

The author offers pieces of advice on how parents can serve as prophets and teachers whose words have the power to shape tomorrow. She emphasizes that parenting is a vocation, which is a calling to be a parent in partnership with Jesus. She stresses that the vocation for parents comes the promise that the Holy Spirit will always be present to inform them of their decisions and to bring healing to their failures and hurts. The author also notes that parents are the moral compass for their children.

The article discusses how parents can lay the foundation for countercultural living for their children. Countercultural living refers to a way of life that adopts God's attitude and make choices of selfless love. It explains why parenting is a vocation from God. It describes the need of children for a moral compass which will direct to the right morality. It relates why being at home with children is a countercultural choice. It outlines the ways by which parents can transmit their spiritual heritage to their children.

The article emphasizes the need for parents and teachers to work together. It stresses the importance of the parents' support for teachers. It notes that when the parent disagrees with a teacher's action or school policy, he or she should suggest a coping skill appropriate to the situation. It also includes the topics to be discussed in the 2007-2008 Parent Partnership Handbook newsletters such as school socialization.

The article focuses on the role of parents as moral mentors to their children. It is said that parents must determine what kind of person they wanted their child to become as the first step in moral mentoring. There are two processes in which parents can form the morality of their child which are creating a moral atmosphere in the home and establishing manners of that promotes moral maturity.

Presents a guide for parents on teaching Christian character to their children. Definition of Christian character; Concept of humility; Sources of inspiration within a family.

Focuses on enhancing the Catholic family character. Levels of critical thinking that aid to the development of reasoning skills; Emotional skills to be develop which lay the foundation for Christian character; Steps in developing decision-making skills.

Chest-wall resection can be successful only with proper reconstruction. Anatomy and physiology, as well as pulmonary function, are important in planning the repair. The author discusses the advantages and disadvantages of various types of prosthetic materials used for rigid replacement and soft-tissue replacement with myocutaneous flaps.

From 1939 through 1981, 170 patients were seen and treated for pleural mesothelioma. Twenty-one tumors were benign, 47 were fibrosarcomatous, and 102 were epithelial mesothelioma. Resection was the main mode of treatment in benign and fibrosarcomatous mesothelioma. Treatment of diffuse epithelial mesothelioma presented the greatest challenge. Surgical therapy, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy were used in combination in these patients. The review of our patients treated prior to 1972 had shown no benefit from including pulmonary resection in the surgical treatment of these tumors. Since then, all patients with diffuse mesothelioma were treated by pleurectomy without pulmonary resection. Both internal and external radiation therapy were also used to enhance local control. Forty-nine percent of patients with epithelial mesothelioma lived 1 year. The median survival in patients whose disease was controlled by these methods was 21 months. Despite the poor prognosis in malignant mesothelioma, better survival was achieved when the treatment included operation combined with radiation and chemotherapy.

From 1974 through 1983, 125 patients underwent operation at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for non-small cell carcinoma of the lung invading the chest wall. (Excluded are those with superior sulcus tumors or distant metastases at presentation.) Eighty patients were male and 45 were female. Ages ranged from 33 to 88 years (median 60 years). Histologically, the tumors were epidermoid carcinoma in 46%, adenocarcinoma in 46%, and large cell carcinoma in 8%. All patients underwent thoracotomy (pneumonectomy 19, bilobectomy seven, lobectomy 75, wedge resection 10, and no pulmonary resection 14), with an operative mortality of 4%. At thoracotomy, mediastinal lymph node dissection was routinely performed, and the postsurgical stage was T3 NO MO in 53%, T3 N1 MO in 13%, and T3 N2 M0 in 34%. Extrapleural resection was performed in 66 patients. En bloc resection of chest wall and lung was performed in 45 patients with an operative mortality of 2%. Complete resection of tumor was possible in 77 patients (62%). Extension of tumor beyond the parietal pleura significantly decreased resectability. The median survival of 48 patients having incomplete resection was 9 months, despite perioperative interstitial and external radiation. The actuarial 5 year survival rate (Kaplan-Meier) of 77 patients having complete resection was 40%. This percentage was not significantly influenced by the patient’s age or sex or by tumor size or histologic type. Lymphatic metastases significantly reduced survival, with a 5 year actuarial survival rate of 56% for patients with T3 N0 M0 disease and 21% for those with T3 N1 M0 or T3 N2 M0 disease (p = 0.005). The extent of tumor invasion of the chest wall appeared to influence survival, but in the absence of lymphatic metastases the difference at 5 years was not significant. Complete resection offers a significant chance for long-term survival in lung cancer directly extending into parietal pleura and chest wall. Extrapleural resection or en bloc chest wall resection can be performed with a low operative mortality and an expected 5 year survival in excess of 50% in the absence of lymphatic metastases.