children
"This is exactly the kind of photo you shouldn't post of your child."
That is: the kid's face. Paranoia (of facial recognition) strikes deep.
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"While parents watch their kids’ games or dance classes, they strategize and share information in ways that help their kids."
"They’ll talk about how to get their children into the gifted classes and who the best math tutors are. In a nutshell, extracurriculars are '…
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children
"A great nation with thousands of years of history and a brilliant civilization is rapidly degenerating into a small group of the old and the weak thanks to these wrongheaded population-control policies."
Said Yi Fuxian, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, quoted in "Beijing’s one-child policy is gone. But many Chinese are stil…
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children
95 things kids are afraid of, including the PBS logo...
... and lots of things that might crawl up out of the toilet.
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children
"I was SHOCKED when my daughter showed me the pamphlet that she was required to make promoting Islam in a way 3rd graders could comprehend."
"As a mother who teaches her children that the One True Creator God is the GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, it made me sick to my stomach to se…
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children
Aspiring to be "Mommie Dearest."
Here 's a NYT article about how parents are giving birthday parties without presents for their kids: In part to teach philanthropy and altruism, …
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children
"By the time the angst-ridden turn to [the parenthood-indecision therapist], they have typically exhausted other potential sources of insight."
"They’ve late-night-panic-Googled their way to every parenting blog and advice column and TED talk; they’ve read feminist essays by women who ar…
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children
"I am such an overprotective parent that if I knew my child might get bitten, I would not have even let my daughter do this."
"But I felt safe. Everyone just imagines dolphins as smiling, non-biting animals with knobby teeth. You forget these are wild animals. " Ug…
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children
"A photo taken of two little girls during nap time at their school is melting hearts across the Internet."
"This sweet picture was taken while the girls were taking a snooze on a mat at the Presbyterian Day School in Clarksdale, Mississippi." So …
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children
"And if [the rapists] are providing [love], plus drugs, and alcohol and freedoms, or perceived freedoms, then we're never going to be able to keep [young girls] safe."
That's a quote from BBC's unnamed source who was a home-care worker in in Rothingham during the period when 1,400 young girls were systematic…
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children
A 47-year-old woman pretended to be a 16-year-old boy on line and tormented a 13-year-old girl she knew.
After getting the girl to fall in love with this nonexistent boy, the middle-aged woman turned mean, argued, and said "The world would be a bett…
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children
Texas state legislator files a bill prohibiting schools from punishing students who engage in pretend gun play.
"Rep. Ryan Guillen... said he filed the bill after a second- grader in suburban Maryland was suspended for two days in March 2013 for chewing hi…
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children
Person-based praise and process-based praise — are you praising your kids the best way?
"The parents who gave more process-praise had children who believe their intelligence and social qualities could be developed and they were more…
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children
From the 7-year-old girl's Christmas list: "A little thing that can turn into anything at anytime."
From "My Kid's Insane Christmas Wish List, Annotated." (Via Metafilter .) Also on the list: and "A pet puppy. Border collie with …
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children
"When the judge gave him standing to sue for custody, I thought, 'What's happening?'"
"'She voided the marriage, she knows he is a woman.' It's ludicrous."
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children
A 47-year-old woman pretended to be a 16-year-old boy on line and tormented a 13-year-old girl she knew.
After getting the girl to fall in love with this nonexistent boy, the middle-aged woman turned mean, argued, and said "The world would be a bett…
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children
"Frost Boy."
This little boy walks to school every day in freezing weather. By the time he gets to the classroom, he is half boy half snowman! pic.twitter.com/WAu…
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children
Children reading nonfiction.
Here's a NYT article — "English Class in Common Core Era: ‘Tom Sawyer’ and Court Opinions" — about the struggles of English teachers —…
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children
"This is exactly the kind of photo you shouldn't post of your child."
That is: the kid's face. Paranoia (of facial recognition) strikes deep.
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children
At the Hands of Our Future Daycare, the childcare workers set up toddler fights.
Allegedly. In Delaware. In the video, police say one child can be heard crying and yelling, ‘He’s pinching me,’ while a daycare worker responds, ‘No …
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