Byline: Mr BrocklebankDaily Post (Liverpool, England)
“We’re all babies. We’re all little kids growing up and learning ourselves.” The night after the “Guess” video came out, Charli XCX hosted her 32nd birthday party in Los Angeles. Addison Rae and Glen Powell and Nelly Furtado and Tove Lo and Lorde and Sabrina Carpenter turned up ...
An Egyptian king named Psammetichos wished to find out which was the world's oldest language. To gain this information he decided to keep 2 newborn babies apart from others until they began to speak. Because they were kept from grown-ups, they would have no language to imitate. The king...
I, like many kids, needed to test grownups’ claims, and one that struck me as particularly dubious was that gasoline was flammable since it was a liquid. Every liquid I’d ever seen meet a flame—water, soda, juice, pee—had extinguished it, and, yes, I’d done that experiment any...
But I am a dad now, and my child is sitting in a plastic tub, and his head has turned to the side, and if I know anything about babies, it’s that they can’t control their heads, and I wonder if I should get someone, because what if he can’t breathe in that position? He...
GENZLINGERNEILEBSCO_AspNew York Times
Peter Pan Generation; How the Never-Grownups of 35 and over Are Still Acting like TeenagersTHEY like to party, are easily bored and are obsessed by fashion and pop music.They go to rock festivals at Glastonbury and constantly change sexual partners.And, some might think, they should be old...
I liked Cuddle-Ups for not having cartoon characters on them and not smelling like a baby powder explosion. I always got unscented baby things because I adored Frances’s default baby smell, the one she came with. Every case of Cuddle-Ups gave me dozens more opportunities to bury sodden ...
This is when mothers begin to feel their babies move; the moving it seems, makes things more real. The attachment changes with experience, too. In one study, women who have given birth and raised a child for one year felt a stronger bond with their offspring than when they were still ...
Distraught from my extreme weight loss, I slid down from my bed until my butt hit the floor, then got down on all fours and started some push-ups. I maxed out after ten repetitions and stayed on the floor for few minutes, exhaling deeply. After catching my breath, I pushed myself ...