My liberal parents never let me play with toy guns as a boy. Now that my son is 4, I'm stockpiling the arsenal
By Mark Benjamin Sep 8, 2009
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My family thinks it's just entertainment, but it leaves me anxious and sleepless.
By Cary Tennis
May 15, 2009
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So you thought your parents were weird. Two remarkable memoirs about partner swapping, revolutionary politics and other unorthodox family tales.
By Andrew O'Hehir
March 31, 2009
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In Britain, there's an increase in kids under 10 being hospitalized for eating disorders.
By Sarah Hepola
May 8, 2008
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When your children grow up, you have to say goodbye to part of them -- and part of yourself.
By Gary Kamiya
December 18, 2007
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I seem to have lost some part of myself and wish I could get it back.
By Cary Tennis
December 11, 2008
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I used to believe in fantastic things of the imagination; now they all seem to be dead.
By Cary Tennis
March 21, 2008
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I am conflicted about who is to blame for my older brother's abuse. I goaded him on. I think I share the blame.
By Cary Tennis
March 6, 2008
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I'd love to let her quit so that we can stop fighting about it, but I know she'll regret it if she does.
By Cary Tennis
June 21, 2007
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How do I tell our 8-year-old daughter that her dad is having a sex change?
By Cary Tennis
May 10, 2007
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I'm crazy in love with my two sisters' five kids. I feel like helping to raise them would give my life meaning.
By Cary Tennis
April 24, 2007
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I think the child will want to know who the father was, but my partner is concerned about interference and complications.
By Cary Tennis
January 3, 2007
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It was good to separate from their alcoholic dad -- but I feel bad about bringing my kids to the city.
By Cary Tennis
October 19, 2006
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Childhood games like tag, dodgeball and rock paper scissors are being reclaimed by adults. Is there some deep societal reason why people are returning to kiddie fun?
By Christopher Noxon
June 28, 2006
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Since childhood, I feel only a great emptiness.
By Cary Tennis
March 23, 2006
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I have certain hazy memories that give me the creeps, but I really don't know the truth.
By Cary Tennis
November 1, 2005
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The great children's poet and adult entertainer Shel Silverstein did it all -- singing jazz songs, hanging with Lenny Bruce, writing plays, drawing cartoons, and living at the Playboy Mansion.
By Lisa Rogak
April 20, 2005
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Eulogy
January 24, 2003
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After nearly two years on the road, we arrive a different family -- splintered but revived.
By Kate Convissor
December 13, 2002
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My son believes New York is his town, and the world is his oyster cracker. Is he entitled to feel entitled?
By Justin Davidson
October 7, 2002
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What She Just Said
September 20, 2002
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Countdown from cool
September 13, 2002
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The Crying Swan
August 2, 2002
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My girls live and breathe hoops with a passion that carries us beyond the season into moments of frightening uncertainty.
By Susan Straight
June 6, 2002
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We go back to old homes to reinhabit past selves. We don't own them anymore, but they belong to us nonetheless.
By Carol Lynn Mithers
May 14, 2002
I am arming my kid to the teeth
I cannot watch violence on TV or in movies
They f*** you up, your mum and dad
Childhood, a time of carefree play ... and crash diets?
Childhood's end
Four square for grown-ups?
People love me but I can't feel it
I'm still angry at my father -- what happened in my childhood?
Shel games
Lynda Barry
We gambled and lost everything we didn't need
May you never know your place
Lynda Barry
Lynda Barry
Lynda Barry
All about basketball
This is not my beautiful house
Glenn Greenwald
War Room