As Goes Halloween, So Goes Childhood
If you want to see what childhood is becoming, look how at what Halloween has already become: A parent-planned, climate-controlled, child-coddled, corporate-sponsored "event."
If you want to see what childhood is becoming, look how at what Halloween has already become: A parent-planned, climate-controlled, child-coddled, corporate-sponsored "event."
Modern Medicine | Posted 10.22.2009 | Living
Children who are not able to sleep through the night are more likely to be hyperactive, with the risk especially high for boys with adverse family liv...
Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.21.2009 | Entertainment
Making a fantasy movie about a 9-year-old learning to understand his emotions and empathize with others seems like an almost impossible task, and Jonze pulled it off in a way I could have never imagined.
Michelle Howard | Posted 10.12.2009 | Living
Is it possible that all that time wandering around outside talking to myself had something to do with my aptitude at school? Boredom, which drove me outside, is an art lost to contemporary childhood.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
A woman whose name we all know was a proud Red, a committed Socialist, and an unapologetic Wobbly. And now she's not only buried in the National Cathedral, she's got her own statue in the Capitol.
Deborah Tannen | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
A sister is someone with whom you can laugh and be silly like when you were kids; who still sees in you the child you were; who shares your past and your memories of it.
Tina Traster | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living
The sweet yeasty aroma rising from the blessed creation stimulated my salivary glands and my memory. As I reached toward the loaf to tear off an end my husband tapped my hand as though I were an impetuous child: "No," he said, "You've got to wait for it to cool." I really was back in the kitchen with grandma, being taught the virtue of patience.
AP | AHMED AL-HAJ | Posted 11.12.2009 | World
SAN'A, Yemen — A 12-year-old Yemeni child-bride died after struggling for three days in labor to give birth, a local human rights organization s...
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living
As a child, religions seemed to me a way of separating people, and in the aftermath of the eighth anniversary of 9/11, it doesn't look a whole lot different to me now.
Cassie Goldring | Posted 10.18.2009 | Living
As a 16 year-old girl, turning in my Blackberry to the camp director, not to see or hold it again for 7 weeks, was certainly not my ideal way to begin my summer vacation.
Jessica Keener | Posted 08.22.2009 | Living
My father's garden gained momentum in May amassing to one thrilling river of colors and scents. But Inside my house, life wasn't as pretty.
Colleen Perry | Posted 08.09.2009 | Living
The only thing we need to change about ourselves is to stop holding ourselves to unreasonable standards and begin to risk ourselves by being honest with those we love.
Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 08.06.2009 | Living
Since Elvis, the social pathos and obsession with celebrities has grown more than a hundred-fold, and this King of Pop will never be laid to rest or allowed to rest in peace.
DivineCaroline | Posted 08.03.2009 | Living
I've learned some valuable things about life, love, and being female over the past half-century. Here is the advice I try to pass on to younger women ...
David Finkle | Posted 06.08.2009 | Home
In the spring, according to the time-worn adage, a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of love. Maybe because my young-man days are in the receding p...
Len Simonian | Posted 05.08.2009 | Living
Guiding and protecting your daughter does not mean sheltering her in a bubble. It means not buying her the revealing short shorts that "all the other girls are wearing."
Janice Taylor | Posted 04.11.2009 | Living
I miss you, Barbie. I really do, and I apologize for abruptly packing you and Ken up into your dollhouse and selling you to the kid down the street for movie and gasoline money.
NYTimes.com | PAM BELLUCK | Posted 03.26.2009 | Living
Across the country, children are providing care for sick parents or grandparents -- lifting frail bodies off beds or toilets, managing medication, was...
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 01.15.2009 | Living
Turn the TV off during the next few weeks, don't check your email, and lose the Blackberry. Take a few days off and have some real vacation time.
Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 07.21.2008 | Living
Mirror neurons offer a neural mechanism that explains emotional contagion, the tendency of one person to catch the feelings of another, particularly if strongly expressed.
Lenore Skenazy | Posted 10.30.2009 | New York