The main experience that we enjoyed together in this 2024 was theroad tripwe did toNamibiaduring the summer holidays. We spent over two weeks driving up and down the country along solitary and unpaved roads, throughdeserts, mountains, canyons, along the coast… We did a bit of camping and ...
Let me back up. Here’s what happened. One of my kids was purposely doing only half of an assigned daily chore because s/he found it distasteful to his/her delicate sensibilities. Vague enough for ya? Yeah, well the details don’t matter, and I don’t really want to call my kid ou...
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is all well and good, but it’s Charlie – a poor, harmless, nice kid who wants some chocolate – that’s the hero, not Wonka, a rich, mischievous adult man whose motives can only be guessed at. And in fact Gene Wilder captures that slightly ...
Further studies show that poor children who take part in Head Start programs are more prepared for school, with much less possibility of ending up in Special Education classes, receiving public help or going to prison.There are also negative parts to put a child in formal education programs ...
Dark-eyed Dickie Moore first graced the silver screen atjust 11 months old, in the 1927 silent film "The Beloved Rogue." Frequently cast as the "poor little rich boy," Moore also made appearances in the popular serial "Our Gang" and starred alongside Marlene Dietrich in "Blonde Venus." ...
Just as , the boy answered: “Oh, I am making a little for you and mama to eat your food from when I grow up.” The 4-year-old boy smiled and went back to on it. The words the parents so much that they were . Then tears started to stream down their cheeks. no word was...
In 2021 she released the documentary "Kid 90" about her experience as a child star in the 1990s. Frye is also the author of two books. 1988: Fred Savage George Rose // Getty Images 1988: Fred Savage America watched Fred Savage grow up on the acclaimed television series "The Wonder ...
“The thing is, you know, we weren’t trying to create a revolution,” Paul admitted to Howard. “We were just kids from a poor area in Liverpool who wanted to make some money.” With the Beatles being the best-selling band in history, that original goal has most certainly been accomp...
HDYGT: Have you always been sharp and wild or did you start off dull and docile, and grow into it? Steve Kaplan: I guess it all started when I was a kid. I was the kind of kid who would get picked on and beat up after school. I’m really not sure why. HDYGT: (scribbles in...
A few months ago, I was chasing someone more important than I for a work meeting (hard to believe I know, but I tend to reside in the lower end of the pecking order in the Addis Ababa power lunch scene). I had sort of given up on the meeting when his secretary randomly called me...