parenting
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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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Last Meal
They wanted to speak with me. They wanted to speak with my husband and me. They wanted to talk to us about our daughter.
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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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Fabricating Fear
We searched for a lake monster on the shores of Lake Superior. This was sometime last July. My wife Meredith, son Henry, and I had headed north from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, in the hopes that the vacation town of Duluth,…
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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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OG DAD #12: Inherit the Wind
A baby is like a Rorschach. An occasionally adorable, periodically screamy blob onto which we project our own fears, delights and inner damage. Or something.
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The Disciples of Memory
When I was eleven years old, my father enrolled me in a memory improvement course at the local community college.
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What Would A Kid Say About Go the Fuck to Sleep?
Seems like big kids and parents alike are getting a lot of writing mileage out of Go the Fuck to Sleep, Adam Mansbach’s playfully honest plea to his daughter to expedite her bedtime rituals. The book and its hype have…
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Revenge of the Prey: How a Deer Killed My Dad
I always hated Father’s Day. Did I need to be reminded that I couldn’t remember my father?