Childhood

Recreating Christmas

Patricia Crisafulli | Posted 12.23.2011 | Fifty

Read More: Christmas, Childhood, Christmas Day, Holiday, Childhood Memories, Christmas Memories, Recreating Christmas, Christmas Traditions, Fifty News

So while you're dazed and confused over where you're going and what you need to do between now and Christmas, try to remember how you felt those many years ago when you were little.

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The Thought That Counts? A Cautionary Tale on Christmas Present Buying

Nicki Le Masurier | Posted 12.23.2011 | UK

Read More: Toys, Childhood, Nostalgia, Christmas Gifts, Comedy, 80s, Family, Christmas, Christmas Present Buying, Christmas Shopping, Uk Lifestyle, UK News

When I was five I asked for a Care Bear for Christmas. Not just any Care Bear, I wanted the one with the brooding rain cloud on its belly and slightly scornful face. The one with the mildly misanthropic stare. The one they called Grumpy Bear, but whom I felt was probably just misunderstood.

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Santa Claus Is Coming to Town... NOT

Sarah Khan | Posted 12.20.2011 | Culture

Read More: Santa Claus, Christmas, Muslims, Islam, Holiday Season, Childhood, Humor, Saudi Arabia, Holidays, Culture News

When I was a kid I, like millions of other children across America, ardently believed in Santa Claus. The problem? That persnickety detail that I'm Muslim.

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WATCH: Artist Explores His Childhood Artifacts

Posted 12.15.2011 | Arts

Read More: Toys, Nada Fair Miami, Adulthood, Miami Art, Escapism, Childhood, Comic Books, Art, Records, Nada Fair, New Jersey, Contemporary Art, Ada Gallery, Jimmy Trotter, Cartoon, Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Video, Arts News

One of the spaces that caught our eye at NADA Fair in Miami was that of Richmond, Virginia-based ADA Gallery. The selection of works presented was ref...

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Don't Forget to Remember Your Mother

Helen Spencer | Posted 12.05.2011 | UK Lifestyle

Read More: Childhood, Nostalgia, Mothers, Memories, Family, UK Lifestyle News

It's both a cliche and a major regret to me, but I most certainly took my mother for granted. Today, my two sons are off school (teachers on strike -...

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School? Fun? NOT When I Was a Kid, Miss

Helen Spencer | Posted 11.22.2011 | UK Lifestyle

Read More: Parenting, Childhood, Nostalgia, Children, School, Memories, Family, UK Lifestyle News

It is 11.11.11. (By the way, did you know that in America they write it 11.11.11 - weird huh?) An event which only comes along about every 700 years o...

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Why I Honor My Post-Divorce Sadness

Susan Stiffelman | Posted 11.30.2011 | Parents

Read More: Divorce, Children, Parenting, Childhood, Coparenting, Separation, Teenagers, Parenthood, Parents-Advice-Mama, Parents News

Even though I haven't been with my son's dad for 10 years and we clearly weren't right for one another, it is still a significant loss, and deserves to be treated as such.

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The Neighbor Break-Up

Pamela Haag, Ph.D. | Posted 11.21.2011 | Culture

Read More: Relocation, New Economy, Divorce, Children, Neighborhoods, Mobility, Geographic Mobility, Richard Florida, Neighbors, Childhood, Real Estate, Recession, Neighborly Relations, Culture News

I just learned that our neighbors are moving, to another state. In the most tangible, quotidian ways, we've woven a social fabric together, for our children, especially, and now it's partially torn.

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A Child Left for College, a Young Woman Returns for Thanksgiving

Tamar Abrams | Posted 11.21.2011 | Parents

Read More: Children, College, Thanksgiving, Childhood, Mothers, Separation, Parenthood, Mother Daughter Relationship, Mother Daughter Relationships, Mother Daughter, Parents-Moms, Parents News

The daughter who returns won't be the same as the one who left, but I'm not the same, either. I'm guessing that each time she returns we will have to get to know one another yet again, relieved at the familiar and surprised by the changes.

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Childhood's Simple Pleasures

Helen Spencer | Posted 11.17.2011 | UK

Read More: Parenting, Childhood, Nostalgia, Children, Memories, Family, Children in Need, Uk Impact, UK News

Time has wings. The child you kiss goodnight tonight has no clue that she will soon be standing over the bed of her own daughter wondering how she got here. She will recall the days she spent making cakes and memories with you as she plans the same activity with her little ones.

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Ending Child Poverty

Kate Bell | Posted 11.16.2011 | UK Politics

Read More: Child Poverty, Uk Poverty, Unemployment, UK Politics, Children, Uk Youth Unemployment, Childhood, Youth Unemployment, UK Politics News

The horizon currently looks pretty bleak for children and young people in the UK. The weekend brought news that 3,500 Sure Start children's centres face the risk of closure, and Wednesday's jobs figures saw youth unemployment hit the million mark.

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Dear Mom and Dad, Now That I'm a Mom, I Resent You Even More

Teresa Strasser | Posted 11.21.2011 | Parents

Read More: Toddlers, Therapy, Parenting, Childhood, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Parents, Grandparents, Parents-Moms, Parents News

I stopped being the woman who whines about her childhood, but now that I understand at the core of my being the sort of attachment you feel for your own baby, I am incredulous all over again at all the slights I had put behind me.

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Small Boys + Big Sticks + Bonfire = Happiness

Helen Spencer | Posted 11.10.2011 | UK Lifestyle

Read More: Parenting, Childhood, Children, Fireworks, Nostalgia, Memories, Family, November 5, Bonfire Night, UK Lifestyle News

Bonfire Night. Well, I had one too many vinos for starters, and a punishing pain to my left temple on Sunday morning told me I'm too old for all this...

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Our Dangerous Childhood

Patricia Aranka Smith | Posted 11.09.2011 | Fifty

Read More: Parenting, 1960's, Childhood, Humor, Nostalgia, John F. Kennedy, Post 50, 24 Hour News Cycle, Vietnam War, Captain Kangaroo, Mr. Rogers, Barney, Amber Alert, David Brinkley, Walter Cronkite, Tsa, Breaking News, Childhood Safety, Fifty News

Childhood in my day was brutal, I tell ya. From the beginning, we were abused with cloth diapers. Not one of us sprouted water or blood from being accidentally poked by safety pins.

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Let Kids Be Kids

Gwenn Schurgin O'Keeffe, MD | Posted 11.10.2011 | Parents

Read More: Parenting, Overspecialization, Childhood, Children, Parents News

Being a good parent isn't about providing every experience in the world before your kids are off to college. Being a good parent is about recognizing your kids are kids... and letting them exercise those muscles, at much as possible.

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Entertaining Our Kids, Have We Gone Too Far?

Abi Cotler O'Roarty | Posted 01.02.2012 | Parents

Read More: Spongebob, Simplicity, Parenting, Childhood, Children Attention Spans, Add, Parents News

If we choose to let a marketing department decide what's entertaining for our kids, we could unwittingly be playing a high stakes game that doesn't end until they go off to college with a laser show, just to be sure they're paying attention.

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A Walk Down Memory Lane: Halloween at Each Stage of Your Life

Nina Vir | Posted 12.31.2011 | High School

Read More: Halloween, Halloween Costumes, Slidepollajax, Childhood, High School News

Elementary school is the epitome of your Halloween experience as a child. Trips to the costume shop are frequent. Trick-or-treating, haunted houses, and pumpkin carving are staples.

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Your Turn: Childhood Lesson

Posted 12.27.2011 | Women

Read More: Marlo Thomas, Motherhood, Video, Childhood, Children Life Lessons, Life Lessons, Women News

My mom grew up in a really rough neighborhood in Detroit, and sometimes my grandmother would send her to the store in this not so great neighborhood. ...

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Don't Let Your 'Past Life' Influence Your Present Happiness

Kristen Houghton | Posted 12.24.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Painful Past, Childhood, Joy, Happiness, Childhood Pain, Healthy Living Spirit, Present Happiness, Past and Present, Past Pain, Effect of Past Pain on Happiness, Healthy Living News

When you live daily in a painful past you are living in darkness. The only who can take you out of your darkness is you. Work on your relationship with yourself and decide who you are aside from the pain.

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Almost Like Flying

Meg Tilly | Posted 12.19.2011 | Canada Living

Read More: Bomb Girls, Regret, Mother Daughter Relationships, Meg Tilly, Sarah Dooley, Body of Water, Wicca, Mother Daughter, Childhood, Solstice, Family, Canada Living News

Why do we stop running, spinning, jumping, singing out loud just for the joy of it? Why do we care if no one else is? Why should we care if people think we are bonkers? Just because we are grownups we are supposed to stop throwing our bodies on the ground and smelling the earth?

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Parenting Classes: the Government Must Tread Carefully

Ed Owen | Posted 12.17.2011 | UK

Read More: Parenting, Centre Forum, Uk Government, Parenting Lessons, Parenthood, Childhood, UK News

Parenting classes for 50,000 families could have an important impact for both parents and children, but it would be better to allow parents to spend more quality time with their kids.

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Too Old for Trick-or-Treat

Randi Miller | Posted 12.12.2011 | DC

Read More: Halloween, Childhood, Pranks, Trick-or-Treating, Growing Up, Halloween Costumes, DC News

When I was 13, I was crushed to discover that I was apparently now too old for trick-or-treating. Naturally I did not go quietly.

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Child Brides - A rights Violation 54 Leaders Can't Ignore

Adam Short | Posted 11.29.2011 | UK Politics

Read More: Adulthood, Women's Rights, Commonwealth, Childhood, Children's Rights, Child Brides, Forced Marriage, UK Politics News

Coaxed and coerced, every year early and forced marriage directly affects 10 million girls under the age of 18. This is the equivalent of a girl becoming a child bride every three seconds.

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When Life Gives You Apples, Make Applesauce

Meg Tilly | Posted 11.28.2011 | Canada Living

Read More: Applesauce, Apples, Bomb Girls, Hunger, Acting, Meg Tilly, Thanksgiving, Autumn, Fall, Childhood, Granny Smith, Canada Living News

I feel clever because I took something that an ordinary person would throw away, or eat and resent because the yellow/peach coloured apples were mealy. But as applesauce, those pathetic specimens are going to be so good that I might even lick the bowl, and because it's just me here, nobody will know the difference.

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A Context for Cheating: Great Neck, USA

Carol Smaldino | Posted 11.28.2011 | Education

Read More: Sat, Cheating, Childhood, Context, College, Bullying, Parents, Great Neck, Education News

Anyone who lives in this neck of the woods, the "great" neck so to speak, knows just how huge the competition and pressures are to get into college, let alone the college of one's choice.

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