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This summer my dad, my siblings, and I took a camping trip to Ojai for Labor Day weekend. We wanted to replicate a childhood tradition where our dad would take us camping. These were special and exciting times, as our mom had primary custody of us at the time. For some years in my childhoodContinue reading “Sand on Fire”

This past year I started babysitting a little girl named Eva. I had just moved to a new city and was excited to meet Eva because at that point my entire social network consisted solely of people my age—a phenomenon which I dislike and find totally bizarre, like freshman year of college or accepting aContinue reading “On Supporting Children’s Autonomy”

When I was a school-aged kid I remember being fascinated and so impressed by my younger cousin’s intelligence. He would recite the scientific names of dinosaurs, name all the planets and their moons, point out constellations on his map of the stars–and he was only 4 years old! I remember thinking, this kid is advanced,Continue reading “Why do we teach kids about dinosaurs?”