“Kiddy Pool” Articles

I love the idea of a bridge year for all students, but it finds its precedent in the older and wiser commandment that we’re called to follow: that Sabbath shouldn’t be only for the privileged few.

“Cabin fever, especially with children, is no joke.”

“I find it unsurprising in myself that my Christmas joy mingles with sadness.”

“The loss of my grandfather aches within me, and it stings all the more because the line feels broken now.”

Parenting: “I just let it happen, because I’ve got to do the dishes at some point.”

“A steady diet of highly-processed, mass-produced junk food dulls the palate until we don’t really know what we’re tasting any more.”

A child’s story of darkness and how it illuminates our fears.

“Whether we treat children in poverty as inmates or as brothers and sisters speaks volumes about the Gospel we preach and practice”

“The Hunger Games is compelling precisely because it calls upon audience to consider what kinds of sacrifices, for whom, and for what causes, we’re willing to make.”

It’s that dismissal of children, that nostalgic lens for regarding childhood as a state free from the weight of real fears or anxieties, that bothers me.