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How to Prepare a Child for a Funeral, Starting With Not Saying Passing Away

Young children need something tangible to understand what has happened, and the gentle language adults reach for is usually the thing that confuses…

Naomi Fairbank·3 min
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When One Sibling Does All the Caring, Geography Gets Blamed for a Choice

The resentment felt by the adult child who lives nearest is entirely reasonable, and the way out of it is a specific conversation rather than a…

Daniel Kessler·3 min
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The Mistake Parents Make About Reading Is Telling Children It Is Good for Them

A children's author who spent eight years teaching says books have to compete as entertainment, and that pitching them as self-improvement guarantees…

Megan Alcott·3 min
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How to Talk to a Teenager About Ultra-Processed Food Without Losing the Argument

Future health is an impossible sell to somebody who is 14 and fit, so the more effective line is that their appetite is being monetised.

Simone Bassett·3 min
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The Company That Owns Gucci Is Funding Sexual Violence Education in New York Classrooms

Kering's foundation backs Project DOT, which teaches teenagers a vocabulary for harassment and coercion that most of them say their schools never…

Marcus Stratton·3 min
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The Scottish Treehouses Where the Selling Point Is That Nothing Works

Four cabins on stilts in a Stirlingshire wood have no wifi and no television, are under an hour from Glasgow airport, and are booked on exactly that…

Claire Ashford·3 min
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Five Days of Silence in Bali, and the First Two Are Genuinely Unpleasant

The Four Seasons at Sayan has built a silent retreat around its own guests, and the hardest part is not the meditation, it is the first forty-eight…

Alicia Moreno·3 min
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Three People Died at Burning Man This Year, and the Cause of None of Them Is Known Yet

The gathering's fortieth year drew more than 60,000 people to the Nevada desert, and the deaths of three men across three consecutive days have…

Curtis Vance·3 min
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The Advent Calendar Has Escaped December, and Halloween Is Where It Went

Search traffic for Halloween countdown calendars is at its highest ever this year, and the format has split into three quite different products.

Julia Renner·3 min
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Gloria Steinem Has Died at 92, and Her Last Instruction Was That the Circles Continue

The writer who turned a magazine into a movement was still hosting organising meetings in her own front room, and left word that the practice should…

Erin Delacroix·3 min