Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.

Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.

Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?

I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.

Make sure that your kids or the kids in your life have an opportunity to share their ideas, and to teach you something about what we know.

As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.

It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.