My 7-year-old son stood on the beach, looking out on the lake. His cheeks bloomed with freckles and his striped bathing suit hung down limp over his skinny legs. He looked contemplatively at the kids splashing in the shallows. I liked seeing him that way. I cherish the glimpses I get of my son’s face in his quietest moments. Still, I was slightly self-conscious of both my staring and my sentimentality. I had taken a personality test several days prior as part of a personal effort toward self-improvement and found that my chief character strength was an “appreciation of beauty and excellence.” This interested me for two reasons. Firstly, I’m as narcissistic as the next guy and love to hear myself...
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The first thing I noticed when I sat down with Jewel was her beautifully sculpted cheekbones and trademark smile, but I was instantly redirected toward her glow; a warm and welcoming glow emanating from that same place where, no doubt, her poetic music and lyrics originate. I wanted to learn more. It hasn’t been easy for Jewel, the daughter of a single father who experienced post-Vietnam PTSD and self-medicated with alcohol. The impoverished father/daughter duo, knocked around bars in Jewel’s home state of Alaska, crooning to just barely pay the bills. On her own by age of fifteen, to escape an abusive home environment, the multiplatinum, multi-award-winning artist poured her pain, anxiety, depression, and confusion into some of the most...
Fall 2017 will mark the end of homework for Marion County, Florida. The new superintendent, Heidi Maier, has decided to do away with traditional take home assignments for its elementary school students, opting instead to assign 20 minutes of reading every night. The decision was backed by research that suggests too much homework, especially for young kids, can be detrimental to development and instill negative perceptions of school.READ MORE: The Fatherly Guide to HomeworkMarion County is, statistically, predominantly white and conservative, with 13.1 percent of the population sitting below the poverty line. Without Maier — who is also the district’s first female superintendent since 1928 — there is little indication that the move away from regular homework would have happened. But...
A new TikTok trend is causing toddlers to freak out as they watch their parents’ faces morph into horses. Parents are filming their children’s reaction to observing the transformation as it happens in real-time on a phone screen and posting the videos for social clout. The children’s reactions are often extreme, including frightened tears. It’s an odd form of entertainment if that’s even the right word. A better word might be “traumatic.” Importantly, Dr. Kamala London, a professor of psychology at The University of Toledo who specializes in forensic developmental psychology, notes that a toddler’s mind isn’t prepared for these kinds of images. And the fear they experience in these made-for-TikTok moments can have a distinct effect on their developing minds. When...
