Issue 6. Kids
06.14.02 | by Anthony A. Cupaiuolo
The girls spent the other part of the weekend visiting their mothers -- applying make-up, doing each other's hair, talking about school and boys, and doing whatever else adolescent girls do with their mothers in a state prison
04.18.02 | by Tim Lemire
Consumers of pop culture need a higher degree of cultural literacy than even the highbrows, since pop culture is the greater cannibal of other cultural products -- and, of course, of itself
02.01.02 | by Richard C. Crepeau
Despite President Bush's assertions to the contrary, standardized testing stifles true education
02.01.02 | by Cynthia Fuchs
With girls in charge, witness the feminization of popular culture
12.22.01 | by Madeline Begun Kane
Your daughter comes home, enthused about a musical instrument. Your eyeballs throb. Your head pulsates. How do you resolve this dissonant dilemma?
12.05.01 | by Kim Mai-Cutler
I wonder if I'm really good enough when I get the only A on that test. And sometimes I wonder if I'm a bit delusional, just like the other 2,000 kids who live in my shallow, suburban bubble
12.05.01 | by Sacha Zimmerman
Coming of age as an only child can be a difficult experience, but it's even more strange when your father grows up alongside you
12.05.01 | by Dan Cook
The sound you hear is thousands of hours of market research, immense coordination of people, ideas and resources, and decades of social and economic change all rolled into a single, ''Mommy, pleeease!''
12.05.01 | by Jason Kelly
I worry about a lot of things related to my son. For example, am I already letting him turn his brain to mush?