Adrian Peterson’s mistreatment of his four-year-old son has echoes of the caning described by Rudyard Kipling.
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Peterson and Literary Child Thrashings
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Beagles, a Wellspring of Poetry
Two dogs we were keeping recently ran off, triggering a flood of anxiety and poetry.
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The Magic World of Children’s Lit
William Kristof, the much traveled Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the New York Times, wrote recently about the disturbing way that children’s IQ scores often drop over summer vacation. The cause is lack of intellectual stimulation. The problem is more severe with poor than it is with middle class kids. As an antidote, Kristof offered […]
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