• Have Gifted Children
  • Test Their Kids for ADD
  • Help with Homework
  • Hire Excellent Babysitters
  • Bubblewrap Their Kids
  • Throw Fabulous Parties
  • Sanitize Everything
  • Sleep with Their Kids
  • Interview Their Kids
  • Buy Nice Things
  • Ensure Productive Playtime
  • Feel Conflicted about Gaming
  • Get Their Kids to Princeton
  • Don’t Waste Time
  • Eat Food That’s Healthy
  • Homeschool Their Children
  • Live in Their Cars
  • Upgrade Old Games
  • Pay to Play
  • Choreograph Play Dates
  • Buy Trophies for Everyone
  • Obsess about Vaccines
  • Provide Excellent Snacks

    • Top This Parenting is a project about childhood in America. By collecting outrageous tales of over-stirred, joyless childrearing practices, we are opening a space for discussion about what is happening to our kids and why. We are a poet, a psychologist and a geographer who study, observe and celebrate the lives of children and parents from different perspectives. Together, we’ve been exploring how today’s American children have fewer opportunities to play in non-governed spaces and non-consumerist atmospheres. By describing ourselves and others caught up in these trends, we hope to raise questions, incite conversations, and inspire change.

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    Buy Nice Things

    At one house in our neighborhood, the kids have a music room where they keep a piano, two violins, a full size marimba that you have to be over five feet to even play, three guitars and a full drum kit. The children are in elementary school and the mom says that she doesn’t even play an instrument. In another room, there are so many toys I thought that the toddler was drowning. He was sitting amidst big trucks, parts of train tracks, electronic robots and pink and yellow toy kitchen utensils. I wanted to toss him the plastic life ring from the pool to pull him out.

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    This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 at 9:08 am and is filed under Uncategorized.


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