23 Southie Tips for Handling Your Liquor
In our March feature, “Coddled, Not Stirred,” we ask the question: Why are Boston’s college students so immature when it comes to drinking? Maybe it’s the way we’ve raised them. Here, then, are some...
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Photograph by Toan Trinh A headline from the Sunday New York Times said it all: “Reporting Rape, and Wishing She Hadn’t.” I sat on a bench waiting for a brunch table on a beautiful July morning on...
View ArticleThe Homework Wars
Illustration by João Fazenda It was like we didn’t even know each other: There was my 10-year-old son, nostrils flared, chin down, vibrant blue eyes turned red from tears and anger, looking like a...
View ArticleHow to Live a Meaningful Life Without Religion
Photo via iStock.com/Pogonici In January 2013, I published an article in Boston magazine called “Losing Our Religion” about raising kids without religion. The story started out small, as a personal...
View ArticleBoston Has Become a City Without Children
Illustration Source: Douglas McFadd/Getty Images Boston’s Stroller Wars started early in 2010. They began as an online grumble over the T—To hell with your damn strollers and lazy, semi-ambulant...
View ArticleWill Daycare Turn Your Kid into an Aggressive Little Monster?
Illustration by João Fazenda My two-year-old son, Otis, stuffs his curly hair into his train conductor’s hat and turns up the volume on Otis Redding’s “Knock on Wood.” Spinning in circles and flailing...
View ArticleYour Guide to February School Vacation Week 2017
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF BLUE MAN GROUP BOSTON For many Boston kids, February School Vacation Week is an opportunity to spend a whole nine days glued to their TVs, phones, and video games. Need to pry...
View ArticleParenting in the Age of Donald Trump
Illustration by Robert Neubecker The voice yelling to me from the other room was strained with worry: “Can I show you something?” A second later, my fiancé’s teenage daughter, Tess, held her iPhone...
View ArticleHow We Became Me
Illustration by Vahram Muradyan When I was in grade school, I was a Girl Scout. To be in the Girl Scouts, you had to buy a uniform. You went to Sears and you bought your uniform and you wore it to...
View ArticleEight Kids-Friendly Activities in Boston
Courtesy Photo In these warm days, free of school’s daily grind, we imagine our little ones splashing in the waves and pitching tents at sleep-away camp. But sometimes real life gets in the way. “It’s...
View ArticleHow to Get Your Undergrad’s Mood in Check
Illustration by Tommy White Empower, don’t rescue. If Junior is unhappy, don’t offer up his bedroom. “The danger is that a child won’t learn to tolerate uncomfortable emotions or develop coping...
View ArticleHow to Vanquish a Bully
Illustration by Tommy White Know the signs. Bullied kids might narrow their social circles, change their eating or sleeping patterns, exhibit aggression, and, in rarer circumstances, harm themselves....
View ArticleIn Praise of Mediocre Kids
Photograph by Ken Richardson Last year, my son Finn came home from school and announced that he wanted to play the French horn. Naturally, I signed him up. A few weeks later, we got an email from the...
View ArticleBoston Has Become a City Without Children
Illustration Source: Douglas McFadd/Getty Images Boston’s Stroller Wars started early in 2010. They began as an online grumble over the T—To hell with your damn strollers and lazy, semi-ambulant...
View ArticleWill Daycare Turn Your Kid into an Aggressive Little Monster?
Illustration by João Fazenda My two-year-old son, Otis, stuffs his curly hair into his train conductor’s hat and turns up the volume on Otis Redding’s “Knock on Wood.” Spinning in circles and flailing...
View ArticleYour Guide to February School Vacation Week 2017
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF BLUE MAN GROUP BOSTON For many Boston kids, February School Vacation Week is an opportunity to spend a whole nine days glued to their TVs, phones, and video games. Need to pry...
View ArticleParenting in the Age of Donald Trump
Illustration by Robert Neubecker The voice yelling to me from the other room was strained with worry: “Can I show you something?” A second later, my fiancé’s teenage daughter, Tess, held her iPhone out...
View ArticleHow We Became Me
Illustration by Vahram Muradyan When I was in grade school, I was a Girl Scout. To be in the Girl Scouts, you had to buy a uniform. You went to Sears and you bought your uniform and you wore it to...
View ArticleEight Kids-Friendly Activities in Boston
Courtesy Photo In these warm days, free of school’s daily grind, we imagine our little ones splashing in the waves and pitching tents at sleep-away camp. But sometimes real life gets in the way. “It’s...
View ArticleHow to Get Your Undergrad’s Mood in Check
Illustration by Tommy White Empower, don’t rescue. If Junior is unhappy, don’t offer up his bedroom. “The danger is that a child won’t learn to tolerate uncomfortable emotions or develop coping...
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