My teacher assigned an essay about our memories of a person. I knew immediately who I wanted to memorialize.
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As a child, who did I think I would be as an adult? I couldn’t remember. And then my mother handed me an old school report.
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Children are resilient. Marriages aren't.
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Childhood wasn’t simple or carefree--not in the moment. Only in retrospect.
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Researchers argue that self-control stems from nature and nurture—and perhaps nurture most of all.
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My mother is an entrepreneur. I know what you’re thinking: Aha! The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
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Ready for me to out myself as the most boring person on the planet?
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The character-building of team sports, the thinking goes, translates into current and future family and academic and career roles.
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Children’s worlds revolve around themselves. Parents and grandparents exist to serve the child—at least, so the child feels.
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What makes a space qualify as a home?
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To honor old media with new media, we put out a call via social media for people who want to receive a postcard via the good ol’ USPS.
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I'm sorry that kids today don't have the parental untethering I did when I left for school.
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After the first semester of the first year of college, I went home for the first time. And realized it wasn't home.
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I went to college before the widespread advent of mobile phones, e-mail, and the Internet.
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I was an avid reader as a child. Books were my favorite escape.
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For summers late in my elementary-school career, my parents sent me to a sleep-away camp. I hated it.
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