Heat Wave, the 3rd and final book in the Extraordinaries trilogy, opens as a hot summer rolls through Nova City. The main characters are on summer break, hanging out, fighting crime… you know, like kids do! But it doesn’t take very long before something starts to seem just a little...
A Carnival In ShanghaiApproaching the Halloween, the Julu Road in Shanghai was bustling. Some young people embraced the concept of “cosplay”, transforming it into a tool for self-expression, and indigenized the foreign culture. In...
25 – Do you think your parents did a good job of raising you? Would you do anything differently with your own kids? My parents are amazing. And I’m not having kids, so that doesn’t matter! 26 – If something is bothering you, do you have to fix it right away? Depends on what...
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A groundbreaking study shows kids learn better on paper, not screens. Now what? Excerpt: The nationwide collapse in reading scores among American youth has lately captured the attention – if not the concern – of headline writers, educators and government bureaucrats...
Yulia: Well, I think my generation, Gen X, we were really influenced by music. So I floated in different groups, as I always in my life have. And we had the stoner kids, the Grateful Dead kids. We had the punk rock kids, and then we had the hip hop kids, like Wu-Tang just ...
and social gatherings of more than groups of 10 people. With this big change, it seemed like the world stopped. I was stifled at my desk hearing co workers worry about who’s going to watch their kids at home and how they will successfully help them with online school balancing their ful...
As with many “bad kids,” DeeDee needs the right circumstances to help her change. Number one is being diagnosed with diabetes, which requires her to be more honest with herself and others if she’s going to stay healthy. Number two change is a new neighbor. River offers to teach her ...
Here’s the thing about memes: people love them because they’re funny. They don’t love them because they’re “from the internet”, and because we as young people are also “from the internet”. This line of reasoning is why brands like P&G almost invariably fall flat when they try ...