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Fri, January 27, 2012
Children and Imagination, Jennifer King Lindley

Do Lego Sets Kill Creativity?

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Is Halloween Too Scary for Kids?

Posted 1 year, 3 months ago

We take Halloween deadly serious at my house. In our front yard, heaps of fresh dirt cover new graves, a bloody brain roasts on a hibachi, femurs litter the ground. Standing amid all this store-bought devastation, 9-year-old Ethan inserts a severed arm into his own sweater sleeve, then gravely…

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Coming Soon: Playgrounds for Children’s Brains

Posted 1 year, 6 months ago

A lazy July afternoon here, and from my backyard lawn chair, I’m watching a rare moment of sibling harmony. My kids, Hannah, age 13, and Ethan, age 9, are busily constructing a swimming pool out of the cardboard boxes our new patio set just emerged from. In his tie-die swim trunks, Ethan…

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Want Your Kid to Go to Harvard? Buy a Big Bookshelf

Posted 1 year, 8 months ago

In my last entry here, I indulged in much hand-wringing over the fact that my book-crazy husband and I were raising a reluctant reader. So it was with great relief that I recently came across a new study suggesting that simply growing up among teetering stacks of tomes on every flat surface…

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