A mother who wrote emergency contact information on her 2-year-old’s back has become a voice for countless Ukrainian parents forced to do the same.
Tag: Children and Childhood
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Patricia MacLachlan, ‘Sarah, Plain and Tall’ Author, Dies at 84
A best-selling children’s book writer, she focused on family life and its difficulties, earning acclaim for her gentle, sparse prose.
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A One-Woman Rescue Squad for Homeless Students in Rural Texas
The work of Norma Mercado, a Texas school system’s point person for dealing with homeless young people, is benefiting from a big but temporary surge in federal funding.
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Parents Who Stay Home Should Get Public Child Care Support Too
Is being in the formal workplace necessarily a sign of progress?
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‘Death Cleaning’: A Reckoning With Clutter, Grief and Memories
These letters are among the more than 500 responses from readers to our request for personal stories about dealing with their own lifetime accumulation of possessions or that of a loved one.