When my children were little, I was convinced that each stage was the most adorable yet and at each birthday I wanted to put bricks…
Little ones’ preferences in food have nothing to do with “should.” Take popsicles and corn pops and full sugar baby-yo. Those, Cora likes. Or take…
Starting in second or third grade and all the way into middle school, we girls used to play jump rope at recess. Two of us…
Over the past few years, a Canadian publishing house called Kids Can has brought out a series of books, each containing a single narrative poem.…
Some poetry goes with kids as naturally as peanut butter goes with jelly. I remember the special delight I used to take in the poems…
A few years ago, my writer-in-the-schools gig involved a middle school in a suburban neighborhood. My charges for that session were mostly kids who’d been…
Valentine’s Day this year brings back memories of our last holiday season, when my five-year-old granddaughter found out that if she went around the house…
As soon as our daughter was big enough, which to us meant the summer she was 8, we sent her to Camp Crystal Lake. It’s…
Today, Lola Haskins is remembering being a Brownie.
When our daughter D’Arcy was little, we lived in a rented stone cottage in an English village. Every day while she was at school, I…