Thu, May 17, 2012

Children and Imagination Around the Web

 

If the Beastie Boys Can Get Respectable, So Can Your Teen

Posted 1 month ago

Don’t look now, but the Beastie Boys have become Beastie Men. And respectable ones at that.

On April 14, 2012, Michael “Mike D” Diamond, Adam “MCA” Yauch, and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz—collectively known as the Beastie Boys—will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,…

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Is Halloween Too Scary for Kids?

Posted 1 year, 6 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, 10 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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