Tag: parenting
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Boys in the driveway
The hoop came from a neighbor at the house we rented.She’d seen the kids out there playing with no hoop. They had just a ball and a driveway and a lot of imagination and she had one sitting unused in the street in front of her house, parked there doing nothing. So she gave it…
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From the stands
He had a serious wind-up before he was old enough to know what a wind-up was. I mean a toddler, barely steady on his feet, already rearing back with this deliberate, solemn intensity, like the throw mattered more than anything in the world. Nobody taught him that. It was just in him. And years later,…
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On her own
For most of her childhood, my youngest came as a pair. She was reserved out in the world. She was quiet in public, watchful, the kind of little girl who hung back and let her older sister go first. The two of them did everything together. If I signed one up for something, they both…
Whatever Held 