My eight year son received at least six books for the holidays this year. He also received a DS. With the DS came a letter from Santa with general guidelines (parental approval of chores) and some rules (twenty min max at a time). His parents bend the rules slightly when convenient, such as a long [...]

I am an author-mother in a predicament: I need to ask my son to stop reading. That’s right, to stop reading. My son wasn’t one of those very early or very precocious readers, and there were moments when I wondered if he’d take to it at all. Well into first grade, he was happy to [...]

Authors are imaginary mentors and real support.

The project of the week in my son’s current summer camp is to collect “new and gently used books” for Read To Grow, whose mission is explained in the cover letter as “to provide books to children.” Curious, in the light of Kate’s recent blog about new media and books going online, on phones and [...]

Recapturing childhood electronically