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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I 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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Paying 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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Creative Nonfiction / EssayFeaturedDRAGONS ARE REAL OR THEY ARE DEAD #7: The queer tenderness of little boys
In 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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“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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At 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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After 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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Like 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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I 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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Taking 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…