5 Movie Characters That Freaked Me Out as a Kid
Halloween isn't anywhere in sight, but that doesn't matter because I've decided to reflect on the movie characters that traumatized me as a child and caused a few issues and fears.
Halloween isn't anywhere in sight, but that doesn't matter because I've decided to reflect on the movie characters that traumatized me as a child and caused a few issues and fears.
John McCormick | Posted 05.18.2012
I used to wonder why my sons asked for the same story night after night. I came to the conclusion that kids simply enjoy the comfort of repetition. Think of it as an emotional security blanket.
Todd Greene | Posted 05.16.2012
Many times we're in a rut, or discouraged, or feel that we haven't gotten our piece of the pie. But somehow, as if triggered by this menacing adult world, our mind will take us back to our youth and bring with it a vestige of happiness.
Gillian Clark | Posted 05.16.2012
I admit to entering a dark room to take a tooth and leave a dollar under the pillow. Perhaps because no adult in my life lied to me, I raised my kids with a tempered version of my mother's honesty. Will it hurt? Yes, only for a minute.
Christine Pelosi | Posted 05.13.2012
Growing up, in church we had the homily; at home it's what I call the "momily" -- the inspirational and instructive mom-isms that every family has. My mother Nancy Pelosi's momilies were memorable and still echo through the years from my childhood to my motherhood.
Jim Higley | Posted 05.11.2012
Mom didn't just grocery shop; she'd buy entire cows from the local farmer. She didn't just bake; she'd have mornings where she would produce chocolate chip cookies by the hundreds.
Sherri Edwards | Posted 05.10.2012
Year 7: Nothing will be more endearing than coming home to find your husband with his hair in barrettes having a tea party with your daughters.
John McCormick | Posted 05.02.2012
When dads tell me they don't know how to tell stories, what they're often saying is, they don't know how to talk with their kids.
Jodi Ciampa | Posted 05.01.2012
Children have such a short time to be kids and we, as parents, have even less until they don't need us anymore.
Kate Fridkis | Posted 04.24.2012
Being good at being alone is so important. Why are we so afraid that kids will turn out to have the "wrong" personality? And why does being quiet so often get interpreted as the "wrong" way to be?
John McCormick | Posted 04.19.2012
As an overworked Dad, I'm always looking for ways to find more time with my kids. I've found that storytelling is the ideal activity to enrich family time by creating a fun, free tradition.
Evan Bailyn | Posted 04.18.2012
When we as adults can accept our need for play, then our society can begin its inevitable shift towards a more playful future.
Vicki Larson | Posted 04.17.2012
My mother was just 12 when she and her family were rounded up from their home in Chernowitz, Romania, and sent to the ghetto.
AOL | Posted 04.11.2012
Jessica Alba talks about how illnesses as a child and motherhood sparked her interest in safe household cleaners. Alba believes that the chemicals in ...
Rachel Sherman | Posted 04.12.2012
When I was a baby, my mother told me that my father fantasized that once I could talk, I would tell them all of the things I had been thinking from the time I could not.
Thought Catalog | Posted 04.06.2012
God, I love Disney so much. In my spare time, I have been known to create entire dances to various Disney songs, and have not yet met princess fan art...
Nikki Luongo | Posted 03.29.2012
What did you want to do as a kid? Was it kooky or was it wonderfully weird? Did you accomplish your goal?
Linda Durnell | Posted 05.23.2012
What happens when our "perfect life" goes perfectly awry? When we wake up from the fantasy of our childhood dreams to the reality that is our life?
Posted 03.23.2012
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Posted 05.22.2012
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Pam Allyn | Posted 05.07.2012
On World Read Aloud Day, I honor the many authors who write for children, for their tender care of the precious lives and understandings of children. Of their fears, hopes and dreams. Of using language to say, beloved child, you are never alone.
Charissa Newkirk | Posted 05.01.2012
Most of the time, teenagers fail to realize how relaxing being young is when compared with the responsibilities of the real world.
Pandora Boxx | Posted 04.29.2012
The day we moved was warm and sunny. I got to go to school for half the day, mainly to see my friends one last time. Everyone in the class had made me going-away cards out of construction paper, glitter, and noodles.
John W. Whitehead | Posted 04.29.2012
Our young people are members of a lost generation -- raised in a world where life has little to no value, the almighty dollar takes precedence and values are taught by primetime sitcoms and Saturday morning cartoons.
Monica Medina | Posted 04.25.2012
My teacher was forcing me to reveal that my father's name was Enrique and my relatives had names like Teotiste, Cesar, Josefina, Juan and so on. I wasn't ready to display my Venezuelan roots to the world.
J.L. Sirisuk | Posted 05.21.2012