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Childhood
Why Are Parents Fixated on Core Memories? It’s supremely hubristic to assume that you can stage-manage the content of your children’s memories .
I Love My Silly Little Fairy Show An ode to Fate: The Winx Saga, the best live-action remake out there.
By Katja Vujić
Can a Childhood Friendship Really Last a Lifetime? In Best of Friends , novelist Kamila Shamsie attempts to find out.
By Bindu Bansinath
¡hola papi!
Sept. 24, 2021
‘How Do I Stop Feeling Angry at My Parents?’ I’m not going to ask you to forgive anybody, but I do think some grace would serve you well.
By J.P. Brammer
The Only Caterpillar I Knew Generations have fallen in love with Eric Carle’s Hungry Caterpillar and his voracious appetite.
By Matthew Schneier
the cut podcast
Jan. 13, 2021
Your Friendly Black Sidekick Typecasting young Black girls as the supportive best friend, on this week’s episode of The Cut .
By the Cut
Plumbing the Depths of Kim Kardashian West’s Psyche Who needs psychoanalysis when you can painstakingly re-create every last detail of your childhood home on the occasion of your mom’s birthday?
By Hannah Gold
ohmygoddddd!
Jan. 18, 2019
By Hunter Harris
science of us
Dec. 21, 2018
I’m Only Slightly Embarrassed That I Still Sleep With a Blankie Like a stress ball or doodle pen, my blankie allows me to tangibly work through the knot of anxieties in my head.
By Sarah Nechamkin
Jonah Hill’s DJ Name Sounds Like It’s From The Incredibles , Says Charlamagne “I didn’t have a rap name, I didn’t have an MC name, but I made a lot of beats.”
By Hunter Harris
science of us
Aug. 1, 2018
8 Women on Their Earliest (and Possibly Made Up) Memories Nearly half of people say the first thing they remember happened at an age that’s impossible for adults to recall.
By Cari Romm
Why Did We Ever Leave Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood? A new documentary offers a chance to reconsider Rogers’s mission and examine why his message is still so hard for adults to hear.
By Heather Havrilesky
Lori Beth Denberg: An Appreciation
When I was 8 years old I had very concrete goals: I was going to move to Orlando, join the cast of All That, and marry Josh Server. I was […]
By Bethy Squires
kids these days
Jan. 12, 2017
This 4-Year-Old Has Read More Books Than You Dailyah Marie Arana has read more than 1,000 books.
By Lisa Ryan
How Imaginary Friends Help Kids Grow Up The emotional and cognitive benefits of make-believe pals.
By Cari Romm
from the archives
July 22, 2015
By E. L. Doctorow
child psychology
Dec. 15, 2014
Half of American Kids Have Traumatic Childhoods But resilient kids are able to withstand the most negative outcomes.
By Melissa Dahl
Are Smart Kids Better at Drawing? What childhood art reveals about the child.
By Melissa Dahl
The Perils of Being a Cool Kid Cool study reveals that cool kids grow less cool as time takes its uncool toll.
By Jesse Singal
true stories
Nov. 14, 2012
By Laura Goode
first person
Oct. 12, 2012
The Childhood Molestation I Don’t Remember If I’d never found out, would I still be traumatized?
By Anonymous
lies we’ve told
Oct. 3, 2012
On Throwing Away the Lunches My Mother Packed The lie I told my mother, the food tyrant, every day for years.
By Jillian Goodman
Checking In…with the Voice Cast of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown “A person should always choose a costume which is in direct contrast to her own personality.”
If you don’t like It’s the Great Pumpkin, […]
By Joshua Kurp
Menu Development
Aug. 17, 2011
Your Guide to Grant Achatz’s Next ‘Next’ Menus Achatz hopes you’ll connect with your younger self.
By Nick Kindelsperger
Checking In…with the Muppet Show Muppeteers Whatever happened to predictability, the milkman, the paperboy, evening TV…and the talent behind all your favorite Muppets, and some you’ve […]
By Joshua Kurp
Your Favorite Childhood Movie Is Not Very Good Before I begin, let me put a disclaimer here: I love the 90’s. In my fantasies, I would have been able to scrap up some level of fame prior to […]
By Karen Belz
I Survived Junior High Because of The Simpsons Back when I was a skinny, orthodontically fortified knot of sprouting-limbs in the junior-high hallways of the Newburgh City School District, […]
By Patrick Cassels