children
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Because Pluto is Still Real For Some of Us
When Pluto’s planet status was woefully taken away, it wasn’t just you who felt betrayed by science and destabilized by NASA. There are plenty of third graders out there who were upset by the news. Check out the hate mail.…
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Brace Yourself
Jennifer Richter’s poems invite us to understand that each of us is a threshold—something pain passes through.
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Boys and Girls Like You and Me
“The earth was crowded with people who would never try to find me if I disappeared. A person is missing only if another person misses them.”
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Childhood as a Branch of Cartography
“We have this idea of armchair traveling, of the reader who seeks in the pages of a ripping yarn or a memoir of polar exploration the kind of heroism and danger, in unknown, half-legendary lands, that he or she could…
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BAD MOMMY: How to Get Your Child into School Without Showing Your Underwear
My first preschool tour was not a good experience. It was going okay until I realized I had dirty underwear balled into the leg of my pants. At first I thought the back of my leg was swollen, but then I…
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Bad Mommy: A New Blog About Parenting, Kind of, by Kaui Hart Hemmings
An Introduction to Bad Mommy I’m not a bad mother. That title is just a cheap teaser and something to differentiate myself from the mamma masses. It’s interesting. I’m not going to call myself Normal Mommy or Bored Mommy or…