In 2015, in my practice evaluation class, Stephen Tripodi, who had a ponytail and was always trying to quit smoking, taught us about single system design: how to study the…
Kristen Stone
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Editor’s note: This video is part of a series called Name Tags, about issues related to names and naming. You can find the original Call for Submissions here. NAME TAGS…
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How do you teach children what is real? Or do you let them figure it out on their own? How do you do that when the first five years of…
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DRAGONS ARE REAL OR THEY ARE DEAD #9
by Kristen Stone December 6, 2016I am grateful for everything I know about the darkness [note: I was asked to share a story on the subject of gratitude for Storyteller Sunday at United Church of…
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DRAGONS ARE REAL OR THEY ARE DEAD #8
by Kristen Stone July 26, 2016Paying Attention or seeing with: mothering at the Detroit Institute of Arts When I was a kid and we traveled my mom always took us to museums. In New…
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DRAGONS ARE REAL OR THEY ARE DEAD #7: The queer tenderness of little boys
by Kristen Stone May 19, 2016In all the generalizations about little boys—all the things that made me hope for a daughter instead of a son—all the #boymom hashtags; all the jokes about pee and penises—there…
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DRAGONS ARE REAL OR THEY ARE DEAD: Odes to discrepant boyhood
by Kristen Stone March 24, 2016“Actually, not discrepant. Deeply human. And this mixture of suffering and joy is deep. Very deep.” – Bhanu Kapil Today, I bought my boy ice cream and took him to…
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DRAGONS ARE REAL OR THEY ARE DEAD #5: Swimming towards literacy
by Kristen Stone January 25, 2016At a trauma training, one of the many I attend, we diagram the brain, the amygdala, the hippocampus, the orbitofrontal cortex. The lines showing where the stress hormones come from,where…
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DRAGONS ARE REAL OR THEY ARE DEAD #4
by Kristen Stone November 13, 2015After the nightmare, or, parenting when the worst has already happened (for Bhanu Kapil, who taught me to place my body on the ground) Last night my child…
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DRAGONS ARE REAL OR THEY ARE DEAD #3
by Kristen Stone October 6, 2015Like water through a fine mesh sieve all the things which the assessment does not capture Our boy is learning to connect words and sounds to things. Behind is his…
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DRAGONS ARE REAL OR THEY ARE DEAD #2: Fish killer
by Kristen Stone September 3, 2015I killed the fish. It was not deliberate. * It was a sudden occurrence, which is the same way my grandmother described her recent fall. * Suddenly, I was somewhere…
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DRAGONS ARE REAL OR THEY ARE DEAD: Notes on Parenting
by Kristen Stone August 17, 2015Taking children places, or, good luck ever enjoying a museum again At the Detroit Zoo a teenage girl said to her teenage boyfriend, it would be so fun to bring…
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Event-memory-feeling: Notes on historical romanticism
by Kristen Stone August 3, 2015On our summer vacation, my sweetheart’s mom gave us three books that were hers: Ox-Cart Man, The Cow Who Fell Into the Canal, and The Two Little Gardeners. She grew…
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Sunday List: Our First Kisses
by Kristen Stone February 15, 2015For this week’s Sunday list (or should I say, Sunday Kissed!) the great and varied contributors to Entropy share tales of the first time they locked lips with another human.…