children
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On Jenn Shapland’s ‘The Meaning of Life’ and boundary conditions.
As we live, we must fine a way to greet the world with delight & joy.
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On Gabrielle Zevin’s ‘Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow’ and video games as art.
For better & for ill, games can welcome us into another world and show us the choices we would make.
art, bee swarm, Braid, children, computer games, emergent behavior, emergent gameplay, first-person shooters, Gabrielle Zevin, game design, game save files, games, Grand Theft Auto, GTA, Hiron Ennes, jail, jail classes, Jonathan Blow, Leech, Limbo, linear narratives, memory, Minecraft, parenting, Peleg, poetry in jail, Psalmist, Psalmist game, psychological effect of gaming, psychological effect of video games, rumination, Sara Levine, save files, save game files, school, swarming behavior, teaching in jail, teaching poetry in jail, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Treasure Island!!!, video game, video game analysis, video game design
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On disillusionment and knock knock jokes.
Children’s trust is fragile, yet we often treat kids so cavalierly.
belief, belief in science, bullying, Celeste Kidd, child psychology, children, children as research subjects, children as scientific subjects, children as study subjects, delayed gratification, devious licks, experimentation on children, Facebook, faith in science, Holly Palmeri, Insta, jokes, kids, kids' jokes, knock knock joke, knock-knock jokes, marshmallow task, marshmallow test, parenting, patience, psychology, Rational Snacking, remote schooling, Richard Aslin, science, scientific experimentation, soap, social, social media, telling jokes, Tik Tok, trust
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On unrequited love.
All those years of unrequited love prepared me for a newborn.
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On magic.
No matter how well our culture hides it, everyone will die someday.
children, children's magic tricks, coronavirus, covid pandemic, covid response, covid school closures, Covid-19, end of life, epidemic, first grade magic, first grader magic, Magic, magic for kids, magic tricks, mortality, Pandemic, pandemic response, parenting, preschooler magic, school, school closure, school closures
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On predictions and a scientific response to calamity.
School closures lead to lost lives down the road. And school closures don’t help much against Covid-19. We should keep in-person schools open.
age demographics, case fatality rate, children, children and covid, coronavirus, coronavirus epidemic, coronavirus policies, coronavirus reinfection, coronavirus response, coronavirus risks, Covid, covid epidemic, covid in children, covid pandemic, covid policies, covid reinfection, covid risks, Covid testing, covid vaccine, Covid versus flu, Covid versus influenza, Covid-19, Covid-19 epidemic, Covid-19 testing, demographics, demographics of risk, educational achievement, endemic, endemic disease, epidemic, flu season, harms to children, herd immunity, herd immunity threshold, in-person learning, in-person school, infection, infection fatality rate, influenza, influenza season, lockdown, mask orders, mask wearing, masks, Pandemic, pneumonia deaths, reinfection, remote learning, remote school, school, school closure, school closures, should we close schools, shutdown, transmission dynamics, vaccination, vaccine, we shouldn't close schools, years of life lost, zoogenic disease
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On childcare.
Love from parents is great, but children benefit most from a whole network of care.
caretaking, child care, child development, child psychology, childcare, childhood development, children, developmental psychology, elementary school, elementary school teachers, evolutionary psychology, extended care network, father, fatherhood, Hrdy, Monroe County YMCA, motherhood, mothering, nuclear families, parenting, parents, Play and Learn, raising children, raising kids, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Sarah Hrdy, school, school teachers, teacher, teachers, teaching, the importance of childcare, valuing childcare, valuing children, valuing teachers, YMCA, YMCA Play and Learn
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On ‘Among Us’ and parenting.
I found the imposters! But I love them too much to vote them off the ship.
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On explaining religion to my child, part two.
In which our little ones just barely avoid making a scene in church …
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On bowerbirds, process, and happiness.
In a world where not everyone wins, we can either prepare to mope or learn to enjoy the process of our lives.
abolition, abolitionism, art, attention economy, Bestiary, birds, Bower, bowerbird, bowerbirds, children, corvids, crow family life, crow intelligence, crow smarts, crows, crows using tools, Donika Kelly, goal-oriented, goals versus process, jail, jail poetry, mass incarceration, mate choice, mate selection, mating, mating behavior, non-coercive mating, parenting, poetry, process-oriented, psychology, self-actualization, self-help, sexual choice, sexual selection, social media pyramid, storytelling, suffering in jail, teaching in jail, teaching poetry, teaching poetry in jail, tool use, tropical birds, War on Drugs, writing
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