What She’s Learning

My daughter, in first grade, is suddenly learning things that make her seem a little bit grown up to me.
On Monday, she bound me to my word with a pinky promise.
Last night, in deciding a contest with her brother, the eenie, meenie, miney mo chant ended with a “bounce back.”
Yesterday, in school, she discovered the [...]

Back to the Future

Yesterday, in the New York Times there was a  piece about the state of mind of the next generation, the one coming of age now, during this recession, that every day promises to be longer and deeper than we could have imagined.  How will the current dire economic straits affect them, psychologically? What will it [...]