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Lunch Table Wars
Helping Your Preteen Survive This Rite of Passage
By Sue Marquette Poremba
Eleanor Chase says that so far, her daughter occasionally mentions conversations that occur at lunch but always in a positive way. But Chase has just begun life as a middle-school parent. "I might be eating my words in a year," she says.
*Names have been changed.