Bathing Beasties

The Twenty Percent

About 20 percent of America's children live in poverty.

-Census Bureau via seattle pi

Transformation

Precious And Unique

Miss Nomer

Cruella Goodwill
(According to Imogen)

My Valentine

Just The Two Of Us

Early Experiences

Benefits of high quality child care persist 30 years later

"Adults who participated in a high quality early childhood education program in the 1970s are still benefitting from their early experiences in a variety of ways, according to a new study."

Full Article

A Big Night

Wildly Want

Tell Me Differently

Happy Christmas

Growth

Slate: Childhood Photos Recreated Decades Later

Wilma Hurskainen

A Cheese Course

In prehistoric times, when almost every adult was lactose-intolerant, the invention of cheese-making offered herders a way to turn fresh whole cow's milk into a food that they could consume without getting ill…In fact, evolutionary biologists at University College London have suggested that a genetic mutation to better tolerate lactose first originated in central Europe about the time this prehistoric cheese-making began. The inherited ability to digest cow's milk more easily is widespread today among people of European ancestry.

Robert Lee Hotz | "New Findings Point to Origins of Cheese-Making" | online.wsj.com

Big Feelings

‘D’ is for Divorce: Sesame Street Tackles Another Touchy Topic

Richard Termine

All Is Bright

Over The Cliff

Poor Women and Children Faced With Fiscal Threat

A Moveable Feast

Imogen says she's half Paris.

(She's half British.)

Thanksgiving

The Kids' Table