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How to Explain Negative Cheering to a Child with Autism
Our child has been to numerous sporting events ever since he was a baby. We never let autism get in the way of taking him with us to a sporting event (or anywhere public). Especially a baseball game. My husband attends a fair number of Dodger games each year and often takes our child. Our…
Explaining Bruce Jenner and Transgender To Kids
Before last Friday night, only 8% of Americans knew someone who was transgender – whose gender identity does not match the sex he or she was born with. Today, an additional 16.8 million people who watched Diane Sawyer’s groundbreaking ABC interview with Olympian Bruce Jenner know someone who is transgender: Jenner himself. Jenner spent nearly two…
Explaining Bill Cosby to Kids
My job is to write and speak about the complexity and impact of violence against women. This means I talk, almost every day, about stories people would rather avoid. The Bill Cosby rape allegations were naturally something I recently wrote about, and discussed in radio and TV interviews. Often when tackling tricky subjects in public,…
How Do You Explain Infertility to a Five-Year-Old?
The other night while I was lying in bed with my five year old daughter, reading her a bed time story, she started prodding my belly with her hand.
How Do You Explain Death to Your Kids?
Recently I have found myself talking to my almost 4 year old about people dying and death. I suspect its partly because we (and I mean, me, my husband and our two kids) play Skylander Giants.