I was thinking I’d write something non kid-related, but I just got back from a 5th grade trip to an environmental education center – School in the Woods, they call it – as a chaperone for 65 kids, for 4 days and three nights. Translation: I was “on duty” for 65 kids for 90 hours, […]
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Tribal Luminescence
Posted in Children, Natural World on November 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Benefit of an Enemy
Posted in Children, Friendship, Motherhood, Natural World on June 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The other day I was in charge of 4 10-year-old boys for a beach adventure, so there was digging, planning, creating the world’s most intricate city of sand. A few times one boy chose more solitary pursuits while the others built and dug; he seamlessly joined and left the group to fly a kite, kick […]
Pajama Day
Posted in Children, Growing up, School on June 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday was Pajama Day at my son’s school. It was the midpoint of Spirit Week. This comes at the exact time when some families are hoping for a final academic push to solidify some of the basics that might have slipped under the radar in the year. But who can learn in the midst of […]
Double Digits
Posted in Boys, Children, Growing up, Mothers, Parenting, Sons on May 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My son is now 10, and inching closer to his “tweens” – a word that didn’t exist to describe my own years between childhood and adolescence. Does that mean I didn’t experience my own tweens or simply that no one recognized the unique development conflicts in the years of burgeoning independence and dependency? If […]
Short Story
Posted in Children, Existential, Family, Isolation/Belonging, Writing on May 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Setting: Any given town, on any given night. Parents’ bedroom, 1:00 am. Dad is sound asleep. Mom has had a headache from a lingering cold, so she’s sleeping fitfully. There’s a knock on the bedroom door. Their 8-year-old daughter is upset, having awoken to an outlandish racket outside her window. She wants to come into […]