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The Hunger Games: Is Katniss The Next Harry Potter?
Twelve-year-olds with guns and knives. Sixteen-year-olds with crossbows, and pumped-up older teens going on violent rampages. Why? Because children, ages 12 to 18, are condemned to fight one another to the death while residents of their nation watch on TV and root for the contestants that charmed them in their pre-game interviews. The last one alive is declared the “winner.”
Best Of Fall Television Reviews And Recaps
Summer vacations over. The kids are back in school and need you to drive em around to their various and sundry activities which wind up sucking up a ton of your familys free weekend time. So what about you? Dont you get to start off fresh and with a chance to get excited about something new, even if youre not the one whos getting a new lunchbox, magic markers which smell like fruit (and havent yet run dry) and back-to-school clothes?
Facing The Tidal Wave Of A New School Year
I feel as though Im standing on a beach looking out at the Atlantic Ocean. The sun is actively burning above but the crisp sea breeze is keeping my skin cool.
Obsession with Our Children’s Happiness Could Doom Them
Ive been doing it all wrong.This whole parenting gig.Seriously. After I read the cover story of the July/August issue of The Atlantic, which told parents that if youre focusing on trying to make your kids happy youre likely gearing them up for future therapy sessions to undo all the super-positive, encouraging blather youve been feeding them, I was initially ticked off.
TV Dads: The Doting, the Dramatic and the Dreadful…
All over primetime TV there are fathers. Fathers who inspire and provide a steadfast guiding hand to their offspring and dads who can be mean drunks and blow of their kids to attend to their own selfish needs.