“Women are always burning inside,” says Antonella Sudasassi Furniss, over video call from Costa Rica. So they were in her 2019 debut as a writer and director, The Awakening of the Ants, in which a mother maddened by patriarchal oppression lays waste to a birthday cake at a children’s party. ‘These things have to be … Read more
Meredith Halpern-Ranzer, Co-Founder and CEO of the children’s podcasting company Tinkercast, joins host Mike Palmer in a discussion about learning, podcasts, and how to engage children and their parents with educational content. Meredith’s background includes creating educational media for children at organizations like Sesame Workshop and PBS Kids Sprout. With the decline of linear television, … Read more
President Biden was photographed playfully biting at least two babies dressed in Halloween costumes at the White House trick-or-treat event on Wednesday evening. BIDEN’S PAST COMMENTS ABOUT MAGA REPUBLICANS COME BACK TO HAUNT HIM AS WHITE HOUSE SPINS ‘GARBAGE’ REMARKS Both children were carried by their mothers to visit the 81-year-old commander-in-chief, who didn’t seem … Read more
“ When Danielle Keaton was seven, her homework was to open her eyes as wide as possible and stare. She had just secured a role in director John Carpenter’s Village of the Damned – a horror film about inhuman psychic children with violent tendencies – and had to perfect her creepy glare. “We had to … Read more
Introducing children to the concept of voting at a young age can help instill in them a sense of civic responsibility and encourage active participation in shaping the future. By engaging children in the voting process from as early as 5 or 6 years old, we can foster a curiosity about how individual actions impact … Read more
Is there anything more heartbreaking than the sight of an empty bed belonging to a child who may never return? This question arises from the unveiling of a 100ft mural in the Little Ukraine neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York, which highlights the abduction of 19,546 Ukrainian children by Russia. The mural, titled Empty Beds, … Read more
The Little Flyers Zone is located in Terminal 1 and has been designed for children age 12 and under. The area features play equipment for children age 12 and under and will help families start their holidays at the airport. It was opened in time for the half-term holidays and features a range of play … Read more
Key points: Mean girls: These two words perfectly described my fourth period speech class. Class culture I had worked so hard to create was crushed overnight with the addition of three female transfer students. They were seniors among a class of sophomores. The ‘new girl seniors’ easily took power over the sophomores and began their … Read more
All of Kate Bush’s sense of wonder, and how she tempers it with not just melancholy but outright sorrow, is threaded through her devastatingly moving new animated short film, Little Shrew. Bush hasn’t performed live in a decade, or released new music since 2011 – and there’s an initial twinge of disappointment on discovering that … Read more
