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Category Archives: Childhood

The Things Children Know

Friday, March 4, 2011

 
STEWART W. writes:
You quote Neil Postman, “Through the miracle of symbols and electricity our own children know everything anyone else knows – the good with the bad. Nothing is mysterious, nothing awesome, nothing is held back from public view.” 
Eve tempted Adam with a single Apple. Today we cultivate vast orchards of the Tree of Knowledge, [...]

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Waifs of Yesterday, Waifs of Today

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

 
 
THIS IS a photo of a young girl who was taken in by a charitable organization in 1890 in Bristol, England. She had been either living on the streets or in a state of extreme poverty and was taken into a home run by the Waifs and Strays’ Society, which cared for more than 22,000 children across England [...]

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When Children Played

Monday, February 28, 2011

 

NOTICE this picture of a London alley in 1899. The children are playing outside and are dressed as children. The girl in the foreground is wearing a pinafore. The most startling thing is that they are playing outside with only one adult in the background. Remember when children used to play unsupervised games, with adults nearby [...]

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The Sickening Pace of Early Childhood Education

Friday, February 25, 2011

  
KATHLENE M. writes:
This article explores how kindergarten has become worse in recent years. This excerpt interested me for the reason I explain below:
How and why has kindergarten changed?
In a word: testing.
According to a 2009 report from the Washington, D.C.-based Alliance for Childhood, kindergartners are being taught to comply with state and national standards, which takes [...]

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A Little Girl is Publicly Cheapened

Thursday, February 24, 2011

 
AMR writes:
I was looking through the headlines tonight and saw on MSN a video advertised as “You want to marry this kid when she grows up? Your heart might be broken until she gets one thing first.” I thought it was going to be a video on some goofy thing that a kid said, but [...]

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Lugging Children Through the Shallows of Banal Love

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

 
TODAY’S journalists are so quick to provide every mind-numbingly boring detail about their chaotic personal lives and so upfront about how indifferent they are to their children. This writer, in his description of his recent “courtship” in The New York Times, talks about his two children from two different women as if they are luggage stowed in the backseat, which presumably is what they [...]

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Welcome to Barack Obama Elementary, Comrades

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

 
DALE F. writes: 
The other day, a friend sent me a link to a piece by Will Hutton, a writer for the UK Guardian, contemplating mostly with satisfaction the civilizational accomplishments of his (and my) “baby boom” generation. 
This morning I saw this article:
The first school in the D.C. area named after the current president opens Monday [...]

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Is TV all Bad for Kids?

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

 
ANNIE writes in response to the post The Cheapest Babysitter in Town:
Do you think that any TV at all is bad for a two-year-old? I am really wondering what your personal opinion is. I was in agony when my little boy started watching TV around the time he turned one! I wanted to fight my husband on [...]

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The Cheapest Babysitter in Town

Monday, November 2, 2009

 
Children between the ages of 2 and 5 spend more than four hours a day watching TV and playing video games, according to a New York Times article on the latest surveys by Nielsen. This is the highest figure ever.
Electronic entertainment is the cheapest and easiest way to entertain young children. As neighborhod life declines, families grow smaller, and [...]

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Disorder Claims the Nation’s Children

Monday, October 26, 2009

 
You’ve heard of ADD, ADHD, OCD and the like, and you’ve perhaps seen the children lined up at school infirmaries for their chemical supplements. Now, word is just in from The Onion of a new psycho-neurological condition afflicting the nation’s youth. This should have been discovered ages ago. Millions have gone untreated.

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The Egalitarian Family and Spoiled Children

Saturday, October 24, 2009

 
Paul Velde writes:
In your piece on men and housework, you remark apropos of another subject altogether, “The average woman wants control over her domestic realm and she doesn’t like the way men… manage the children.” Perhaps the operative word here is “average,” but nonetheless could you find time to expand on this point? In my [...]

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Therapists Abandon Children’s Interests

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

 
The California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) devoted a special issue of its bimonthly journal The Therapist to same-sex marriage last spring. It included articles both for and against homosexual unions. After receiving a barrage of complaints from homosexual activists and their supporters, the organization, which represents 30,000 therapists, removed the opposing pieces last month. It then apologized to its members and, in [...]

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Playing House

Monday, October 12, 2009

Children forge their dreams in play. All children, except those who have been deadened in some way, have powerful imaginations. What’s so interesting is that they often dream of things, such as war, mundane domestic tasks or rudimentary construction, that adults come to view with disdain or boredom.
Despite feminist orthodoxy, girls still continue to play [...]

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A March Against Children

Monday, October 12, 2009

 
 
 
 
The demonstration by homosexual activists and their supporters this weekend in Washington was one more visible and angry protest against the interests and rights of children.
 
The protesters are seeking legalization of  same-sex marriage throughout America. They romanticize their cause. We are at war agaimst hatred of homosexuals, they claim. Widespread hatred of homosexuals does not exist in America. They are [...]

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A Walk in a Patriarchal Neighborhood

Thursday, September 3, 2009

It was a late summer afternoon and the shady front yards were in flower with hostas, ligularia and coneflowers. Red Impatiens and begonias bloomed in pots. The smell of cooking potatoes drifted from several houses and a mother in a dress was absorbed with sweeping the sidewalk in front of her door. 

There were children everywhere, as if this was a reservation for [...]

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