children

Your Edgy Billboard Is My Kid’s Nightmare

What Rights Do We Have to Shield Ourselves from Offensive Outdoor Advertising?

“Mommy?” I look in the rearview mirror at my 6-year-old daughter. Her brow is furrowed and her mouth turned down as she stares at something out the window. “I don’t want to go this way to camp anymore,” she says.

I know exactly what she saw at the corner of Pico and Bundy in West Los Angeles. It’s CBS Outdoor billboard number 14461A, advertising FX’s The Strain. A pair of giant blue eyeballs gaze upwards, held open by a nitrile-gloved hand. At the bottom of the left eye, a silver worm …

by Anoosh Jorjorian |

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Suspensions, Detentions, and Lickings—Oh My

What’s Wrong With How We’re Disciplining Kids In School?

How should a high school respond when drugs are found in a student’s locker or a fight breaks out on campus? Most choose suspension or expulsion. But the zero tolerance …

What to Do When Third Graders Can’t Read

Why We Should Drop the Tests and Pick Up the Books

by Betty Hayes |

This year, Arizona—following the lead of Florida and a growing number of other states—will require schools to hold back third graders who receive low scores on the state’s standardized reading …

Yes, Day Care Sucks

But Don't Expect Government to Fix It

by Katherine Mangu-Ward |

I am the mother of a two-year-old. This means I spend a not-insignificant amount of time making small talk with other parents. These conversations are minefields—for many common parenting topics …

A Child Outside on Her Own—the Horror!

Why Have We Become So Frightened For Our Offspring?

by Andrea Sarvady |

I walked down a fifth-grade school hallway the other day and found a fellow mother nearly in tears. “Andy,” she said, her voice barely above a whisper, “I can’t find …

Oliver Twist Would Have Had Heart Problems

Can We Undo Some of the Harm Of Childhood Trauma?

The United States has been trying to prevent childhood trauma and treat its victims for decades. But new research has shown that the stakes are even higher than was previously …


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