Childhood

How to Offer the Best Chances for Success — The Value of Education in the Existence of a Kid School plays a crucial role in a child’s maturation. To offer your kid the best opportunity for success in life, it is your duty as a parent to give them the best education available. The importance of education in a child’s life, the part that parents play in their child’s…

Once upon a time, I was super environmentally friendly and did a bang-up job saving the planet in my daily life. Only I didn’t know it at the time. A few years ago, California passed a law mandating reusable bags in supermarkets. I laughed at the absurdity of life. When…

Because Growing Up Isn’t Hard Enough There comes a time in each person’s life when they reach the point where they are no longer children, but adults. The transition from childhood into adulthood is often referred to as the “coming of age,” “growing up”, or “emerging adulthood”. The time when…

The revelation that blew my young mind. — Prompt: Is there something you once thought was normal but later learned wasn’t? I think as children, we all kind of assume that everyone’s household is similar to ours. It isn’t until we get older that we start really noticing the bigger differences. My childhood was far from some idyllic…

The sound of home — When I hear doves I am six years old again I am ten I am seventeen I never knew their song was the sound of home until its absence left a silence in my ears until it broke upon them again moving closer as a mournful reminder that in the end a few…

A Few Of The Cool-Ass, New(ish) Phenomena We Millennial Kids Never Saw Coming — It’s a truism that childing today is far less awesome than it was in the 80s. People who grew up in that decade — or in even more ancient times — played their hearts out ‘till the sun went to sleep. Then they used Tab as mouthwash or whatever and…

I’m still thinking about it years later — In my elementary school, we had a school library and librarian. Her name was Mrs. Delancy. She was kind of strict, a bit intimidating, and boring as hell. It was a requirement to visit the library and check out 1–2 books at least once a week. Typically I checked out…