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1. Children are mysterious, and childhood can be dark. When I worked at a daycare, I watched High School Musical to see what the kids were so excited about. After seeing that the conflict was basically that the stars were good at too many extracurricular activities, I was disappointed. What were kids going through real problems supposed to learn from this? Editing out conflict is becoming far too common in media, especially when it’s aimed at children and women. Where the Wild Things Are changed the game in children’s...

People are struggling to figure out how to name the next Generation in a way that will live up to generation names of yore (both descriptive and aspirational). But before we assume that existing generation names are ideal, let’s take a hard look at them. The Lost Generation: This one has a lot of drama and cynical glamour. Coined by Gertrude Stein’s car mechanic, it has a poetic/blue collar origin story that makes it less annoying than when New York Times columnists use it to...

What is the Supermoon? It’s when a full moon gets as close to the earth as it’s going to be all year. Certain years the moon gets insanely close to the earth, like last year. This is called “evening of the extreme Supermoon.” That’s a real thing. What is the mystical meaning of the Supermoon? There are many meanings. First of all, you may not know it but the moon and the earth are in a sort of Electra complex battle that goes on every...