As far as I can tell, it goes like this: Kids learn to walk around 1 year old. Then they refuse to walk for the next 6 to 12 months. Then, finally, they discover the joy in bipedal ambulation and want to run everywhere, often without holding your hand, often directly into busy streets. Which …
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Look, I wasn’t in China all that long. Just a couple of weeks. And while I’m away, all hell breaks loose! WTF? I’m speaking, of course, of the recent antics of beloved Sesame Street all-stars Elmo and Bert, both of whom have been in the news for not exactly PBS-approved behavior. Let’s tackle Elmo first. …
1. He’s young and alone on the flight from New York to Hong Kong. Or not exactly alone—he’s got an infant with him, a girl it looks like. Pushing her in a stroller on the jetway. God, he looks so young! In his mid-twenties at most, and from the way he’s dressed not an ABC. …
Reading Nathan’s and Theodore’s thoughtful considerations of this important parenting question, I quivered with fear: Really? This is the shit I’m going to have to face with Sasha two years from now? Frankly, it all feels highly theoretical, and that’s probably because I have absolutely no experience with gifted-and-talented programs. Neither of the public school …
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