children
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Artist Collaborates With 4-Year-Old on Weird, Wonderful Drawings
Much like when our beloved illustrator Jason Novak collaborated with his one-and-a-half-year-old daughter to draw all 43 US presidents, artist Mica Angela Hendricks shared her sketchpad with her four-year-old: “I was going to draw a body on this lady’s face,” I…
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Eulogy Material
“This is eulogy material,” my father says as he explains this logic. He preps me, teaches me what to say, how to stand. “Remember how he used to draw symbols on his socks,” he begins…
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For All the Saints
I’m a student, I say. My teacher has told me to go to a cemetery and find a stone, any stone, that speaks to me. I chose Kenda’s because hers gave more information, more anything, than any other stone I…
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Don’t Tell Your Kids They’re Smart
One of the most important ways to encourage your children academically and intellectually is to praise them for being smart—or is it actually the complete opposite of that? For New York Magazine, Po Bronson investigates how praising children for intelligence rather…
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“As Long As I’ve Been Alive I Have Known That I Am Going to Die”
At five, at six, I knew that the cemetery was full of dead bodies rotting away in boxes under the ground, and I knew that I would be one of those bodies under the ground one day, too. I could…
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Get Involved With A Blog About “Raising Good Citizens”
Do you have something to say about race and parenting and youth? Racialicious’s sister site Love Isn’t Enough is looking for writers, editors, and more! Details here.
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The Big Idea: Andrew Solomon
Writer and journalist Andrew Solomon talks about parent-child differences, and the eleven-year process of writing his latest book, which profiles families of deaf, dwarf, autistic, severely disabled, transgendered, schizophrenic, and other marginalized children.
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Birdlings and Other Young Poets
Via Longreads, a Michigan Quarterly Review essay by Miah Arnold about teaching creative writing to children hospitalized with (often terminal) cancer. Reading it feels like having your heart thrown off a skyscraper, but it’s so good you have to read…
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My Little Brother Ruined My Life
“Are you a masochist?” It’s the first thing Bosco asks me. He’s fourteen years old now, almost my height, 5′ 8″, creamy white skin, and a small, German nose from my stepmother’s side of the family.
