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...also troubling commercial aspects to a lot of games for preschoolers: they're basically ads for branded characters like Dora the Explorer and Ariel the mermaid. And Thomas points out--in the nicest way possible--how pathetic it is that I want people to think I'm a cool dad...
Morris: It's a very small percentage. Usually the minor children traveling with Mom and Dad...
...bench in the corner. Sinclair concluded my introduction to journalism by placing me in a cab with the fare home. When my parents opened the front door, I stumbled to the bathroom and was spectacularly sick. Then I reappeared before them with the life-changing words: "Mum, Dad, I want to be a journalist; I want to be like Kevin Sinclair...
Born in 1979 in Perth, Australia, he told me that he grew up playing hockey with his dad and his sisters. And his heroes were musicians. "Kurt Cobain and Bono," he said. "I guess they were about the only heroes I really had. I wasn't raised on movies." He moved to Los Angeles at the age of 19, and fame came very quickly, including a big break in the 2000 movie The Patriot co-starring fellow Aussie Mel Gibson. Celebrity had its discontents, though he found solace with the actress Michelle Williams and their daughter Matilda. But he complained...
When kids reach 2, mom and dad aren't paying quite the same attention they used to. You feed yourself, you play on your own, you get held less often. That's not to say you need your parents less--and you're not shy about letting them know it. Children from ages 2 to 5 have yet to develop what's known as a theory of mind--the understanding that other people have hidden thoughts that are different from yours and that you can conceal your thoughts too. Without that knowledge, kids conceal nothing. "They love you," says Gopnik...