SUPER BABIES

I personally have to side with Lanny Middings (Calendar Letters, Jan. 5). I was a 6-year-old only 8 years ago, and although I was in an advanced-learning class, none of my peers, nor I, could spell or define the word appropriate if our lives depended on it.

If Gael Phillips can look anyone straight in the eye and say that he did not help his son Chris at all while Chris was writing that letter (Calendar Letters, Jan. 12), then an appropriate term for him would be L-I-A-R.

JEFF BRAMBILLA, 14

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