Tag: Kids

If Meghan Markle and her kids are black then the sky is pink and Flat Earthers were right all along. None of those things are connected by the way but maybe that’s my point. Why are we trying to connect dots that don’t exist? Because if someone says it’s so, then it must be? Tha...

It didn’t even occur to me that Tim might be gay. In hindsight, the first sign was the relentless bullying. We were in 9th grade, attending a small-town mostly-white private school in the south. We chummed the shallows of a high school pecking order determined only by your attractiveness, c...

Sometimes, Americans just want to be told what they already know. One really good example of this is the coverage of a big study of elite college admissions by the economists Raj Chetty, David Deming, and John Friedman. The three researchers looked at admissions policies for “Ivy-...

I don’t know how many of you were the popular kids in high school, but I know for a fact I wasn’t one of them. To tell you the truth, I wasn’t even considering it as a possibility. I knew it was a thing, but not a thing that I would ever have access to, just like being the ...

IMAGINATION FORMATION Satire in this form refers to actions that gently criticize or satirize individuals or groups that have power or authority in a particular situation. This satire arises when these authorities tend to ignore the situation around them and focus too much on their own personal o...

There’s more to the city than clogs and windmills — and our guest blogger, Tracy Abraham from Amsterdam Wonderland, shares her best tips today   Tracy Abraham runs Amsterdam Wonderland, a site she calls “Amsterdam curated, minus the clichés.” With a...

After the tumultuous recall of three Board of Education members in 2022, San Francisco public school officials pledged to sideline adult politics and focus on students — specifically outcomes in reading, math, and college readiness, all of which have shown distressing dispa...

Specifically, let’s talk about the religious indoctrination of children. It’s a topic that’s at the top of my mind because well… one of my readers just accused me of indoctrinating my own children. It all started when I wrote a simple, whimsical open letter to my son, ent...

Following the conclusion of the meet, Jocelyn patiently awaited awards, hoping her gymnastics performance throughout the day was enough to earn her a spot on the podium. She anxiously picked at her new calluses, courtesy of the uneven bars. And with somewhere around two hundred sets of eyes on he...

While no kid wants to start talking about going back to school when they still enjoying their summer vacation, it’s important to reduce anxiety by starting to talk about what the back-to-school schedule is going to look like. While this could mean creating a visual schedule or developing a ...

Meet my awesome 14-year-old son, Niko. He’s not just someone with autism — he’s super smart, mega-talented, and totally into cooking. In fact, he dreams of becoming a chef. But, you know, life’s not always easy. There are hurdles, especially because people sometimes treat aut...

His drawers are filled with shirts that have holes he made in them with the dozens of pencils he’s chewed up afterward. Our couch is filled with wrappers, apple cores, and other items he’s hidden or pack-ratted away. He says and does things none of his older brothers would ever do. He&rs...

OAKLAND, Calif., — Tanoshi, the tech company featured on Shark Tank and that is committed to breaking gender barriers and fostering diversity in STEM, today announced it is partnering with pop music sensation XOMG POP! to bring its newest Wireless Kids Headphones for Learning to market. Starte...

Thus, having returned to Lithuania, I immediately started generating a plan for my future workshop which was to be implemented for the group of both neurotypical children and a child that had autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in one of Vilnius kindergartens. Yet, the main focus was placed on a 6-year-...

Why should you be? This is something that you have never had to confront. This is alien to you. It is more likely that any experience you have with racism is that you were the perpetrator. Nothing as sordid as driving past a black family and screaming nigger at them. Something subtle. Mayb...

Since the Civil War (and several millennia before that), political parties have been divided primarily by opinions on the issue of race (and immigration, which is also about race). Many other issues intertwined with that, but race was what fired up the followers on both sides. ...

At age three, I knew I was a girl even though my mama insisted I was a boy. My experience as a trans kid almost doesn’t apply because it was fifty years ago. My only option back then was to keep it a secret and disappear into books and a fantasy world. Still, I was bullied terribly because I w...

In second grade, my mom still chose my clothes for me, so when Mrs. Hand (her real name — I doubt she’s still alive) called me up to the front of the classroom, twisted my arm, and berated me for my “inappropriate” top, I was bewildered. It was a warm day, and my shirt was...

I was a PK, a Preacher’s Kid, and I had forgotten that was my primary identity until I visited my hometown. Someone asked, “Aren’t you Pastor Johnson’s daughter?” decades after I had left that role behind. The worst incident, which I cite when explaining the reasons ...

I was bullied unmercifully by several boys, but especially by the kid on the receiving end of this punch. He hit me and kicked me every day for years. I don’t have photos of that, but a neighbor managed to grab the moment when I’d had enough. The kid, Donald, had just hit my brother a...

The United States has a gun-obsessed culture. The bad guys have guns. Many of the good guys have guns. Our movies have guns. Our TV shows have guns. And our Constitution says we can go ahead and get some more. So millions of people have them, in their homes, in their cars, their purses, or even carr...

After surviving yet another mass murder at a school — a problem that only America seems to struggle with — many students have had enough. Led by impressive, articulate, passionate teenagers from Parkland, Florida, a national movement to tackle guns is finally building. The vicious att...

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The color palette of humanity is varied, a spectrum that stretches across continents and cultures. It’s a vibrant mix that tells stories of history, heritage, and society. Yet, for all its beauty, this palette has also been a source of pain, division, and discrimination. Racism, an insidiou...

I remember when the white kids in my elementary school would pull their eyes horizontally in order to mock me. I just couldn’t escape the ridicule both at home and at school. I would come home to the women in my family that all had beautiful big double eye-lidded eyes and yet I didn’t lo...

Iam regularly the only black kid in the photo. I have mastered the well-timed black joke, fit to induce a guilty “you thought it but couldn’t say it” laugh from my white peers. I know all the words to “Mr. Brightside” by the Killers. I am a token black friend. The bl...

The sun peeks through the dense canopy of the old-growth forest. A group of young explorers tread along the gurgling stream. They’re armed with magnifying glasses and notebooks. Their eyes sparkle with curiosity. They reflect the shimmering water and the vibrant greens of the surrounding folia...

My 89-year-old mother has always been impressive. She earned her bachelor’s degree when my sister and I were in high school. She divorced my father in the late 1970s and had a successful career in the 1980s and 1990s, in the male-dominated world of computer sales. She now lives with her 75-yea...

Melissa Dassori, J. R. Silver Writes Her World (Little, Brown, 2022). There was a glorious if brief phase in my kids’ growing up when on a long car trip, we would listen to audiobooks — not through our individual headphones, but together, through the car stereo system. No...

Moreover, learning children fashion can also be a fun and enjoyable activity for parents and children to do together. It can be an opportunity to bond and create memories while exploring different styles and trends. Additionally, teaching children about fashion can help them develop an appreciation ...

Seeing myself over and over in the gym mirrors that first day back at the gym, it was as if my body had suddenly reappeared after vanishing for some time. The mirrors were everywhere, from floor to ceiling, and reflected in them was a stranger who is me. We don’t have any full-length mirrors a...

I let my daughter watch HOURS of YouTube Kids on our TV. I see your raised eyebrows, and I raise you this: remember a time you were amazed at how much your child absorbed just from watching something on TV. But I will also concede that even the best educational content has its limits in really te...