>>We tell our children that they can be anything they want to when they grow up. And, while they are children, Halloween allows them the...[Read More]
Tag Archives: children
>>I was at the park with my kids a few days ago, when a little boy came up to me and pointed at my eye....[Read More]
>>Do you want to help children in North Carolina? Pay their parents more money for their work. Long-term, substantive, positive increases in income for parents...[Read More]
>>For some reason, an inordinate number of my children’s friends were born in late summer or early fall. In some ways this is great: our...[Read More]
>>It happens every few months. A deranged person enters a school and starts shooting people. For a few days, maybe weeks, the old gun debate...[Read More]
>>Years ago, I was in a horrible parent-teacher meeting. One of my students failed my class and wasn’t going to graduate. The mother wanted me...[Read More]
>>When my kids were born, I was working at a nonprofit making more than I ever had in my life — $36,000. My partner was...[Read More]
>>My grandmother’s “Peanut Parties” were the best. She would set us kids on the porch with a huge tub of locally-grown peanuts to shell. When...[Read More]
>>School’s back in session. It’s time to tighten the reins on your family schedules. No more letting the little ones stay up late to catch...[Read More]
>>Aah… back to school time! Big yellow buses trundling down the street, the smell of freshly sharpened pencils, sneakers squeaking on linoleum, and the yearly...[Read More]