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The article focuses on a recommendation from Shelving.com and its sister site TheShelvingStore.com on selecting lockers at home that reflect children's personalities to keep them organized.

The article focuses on the 25 lessons about first graders. It states that among the characteristics of first graders are going to the bathroom three or four times a day and playing blocks, Legos and marble mazes. It also states that first graders think their teachers know everything and old enough to know the rules but young enough to turn themselves in for breaking them.

The author discusses how her children are developing the character of her grandchildren by molding their personalities, enhancing their talents, and imparting values.

PARENTS around the city are eagerly awaiting delivery of the 5-by-7, 8-by-10 or wallet-size school portraits of their children that typically arrive in mailboxes this time of year. But instead of the stuffy, posed portraits with forced smiles and blue carpet backgrounds customary to the genre, some Brooklyn parents are getting images like these brightly lighted photos against a white background that radiate with their children's personalities. Thomas Roemischer, a Park Slope parent who works at a digital printing shop in Manhattan, began conceiving of this approach several years ago after being disappointed by what he calls the ''puppy mill-style'' portrait he received of his son, Jack, then a preschooler at a neighborhood school. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

By now, hip-hop has become a mainstream part of the cultural landscape for children on shows like ''Sesame Street,'' ''Yo Gabba Gabba!'' on Nickelodeon and ''Choo-Choo Soul'' and ''Handy Manny'' on the Disney Channel. But when Rona Brinlee, a bookseller in Atlantic Beach, Fla., first heard about ''Hip Hop Speaks to Children,'' an illustrated anthology of poems and song lyrics, she worried that prospective buyers might shy away. With previous volumes of poetry for children, she had noticed that the books were popular among grandparents looking for gifts. ''I didn't know if these same loving grandparents were going to say, 'Wow, hip-hop,' '' said Ms. Brinlee, who owns the BookMark, an independent bookstore. ''Because some are going to make assumptions that this is violent, or they just don't know anything about it.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

To watch the talents of Saoirse Ronan, the brilliant young actress from ''Atonement,'' being wasted in the science-fiction juvenilia of ''City of Ember'' is to be reminded that a powerful performance needs an equivalent screenplay. In ''City of Ember,'' she has nothing to work with. Ms. Ronan, who is 14, and the dimple-chinned 24-year-old heartthrob Harry Treadaway portray Lina and Doon, best pals fleeing a subterranean dystopia guided by the kind of cryptic instructions found in the ''National Treasure'' movies. In Jeanne DuPrau's children's novel (the first of the four-part ''Book of Ember'' series), from which the film was adapted, Lina and Doon are dewy 12-year-old adventurers loaded with pluck but devoid of personality. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents the author's comments on the attitude of parents towards their children in U.S. It is reported that some parents want to float over their children to keep a proper record of their daily activities. The author criticizes such actions performed by parents which trigger the growth of the overall personality of children. However, the major problem was faced by the career service directors who feel that interruption of parents in the lives of their children was too much.