Tag Archives: Parenting

Ted Lasso, Not Larkin, for Child Advice

By Robin Bates | Published: September 12, 2023

Larkin’s famous poem “They fuck you up, your mum and dad” is wrong in a number of interesting ways.

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Selling Your Child on Idealism

By Robin Bates | Published: August 18, 2016

Should parents, knowing what the world is like, encourage their children’s idealism. Maggie Smith takes on this question in an entertaining poem.

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An Ideal Mother

By Robin Bates | Published: January 9, 2014

When I think of a mother-son relationship that most matches my own, I think of Betsy Trotwood and David Copperfield.

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Talking to Kids about Movies

By Robin Bates | Published: July 9, 2010

Stand by Me (Rob Reiner, 1986)  Film Friday First, a quick prayer of thanksgiving: my father, who is responsible for my love of literature and film, underwent successful surgery on a blocked artery Tuesday. He had been experiencing sharp pains and a stent was installed. Such are the miracles of modern medicine that, by Thursday […]

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