The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors’ pushup bras?
ADORA SVITAKI realise I’m still a child, though I do feel older.
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But where’s the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?
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Recently did an on-line test called ‘What’s Your True Age?’ My result was 50-60 years old.
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We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion.
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The traits the word ‘childish’ addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age.
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We often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.
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Because I think that we are less hampered when it comes to ‘this costs too much’ or ‘that’s impossible.’
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I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book, ‘Flying Fingers,’ debuted.
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The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle.
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As children, we have a tenuous idea of love.
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Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.
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It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama.
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Companies would probably do better with CEOs who didn’t blow their own horn.
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Rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.
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The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make ‘big miracles’ happen.
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But it doesn’t change the fact that we are chained to the beast. Voluntarily, of course.
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