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Article: Child Watch Program Sends Virginia Leaders into Child Care Centers.
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- October 8, 1998
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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 7--NORFOLK, Va.--Usually attorney Neil Rose, Virginia Power supervisor Mary Edwards and state Sen. Stanley Walker spend their days among grown-ups negotiating contracts, hammering out policies, or crafting new laws.
Tuesday they poured milk for 5-year-olds, rubbed the backs of toddlers to help them sleep, and chatted with 2-year-olds about the properties of Play Doh.
"You just rip it and roll it," 2-year-old Jahvae Giddens told Rose with an air of authority.
Thirty-five business people, politicians and child advocacy leaders spent Tuesday on a "Child Watch," in which they boarded yellow school ...