Kids Today
Should Sidewalk Chalk Be Banned?
Moving sucks. Trust me, by this time next month, I’ll have moved for the fifth time in five years. Each time a lease ends, I […]
Now the Media Is Bullying School Bus Monitor Karen Klein
I was 11 years old that night I went out after dinner to Mr. Grocer. Mr. Grocer was a small, 7-Eleven-type store a few blocks […]
Good Thing Mayor Nutter Officially Opened City Pools
With the heat index expected to reach 108 degrees (?!) this week, we’re relieved to say that Mayor Nutter officially opened the city’s pools on […]
American Teens Can’t Find Summer Jobs
Teenagers are, like, so lazy. A new report finds that more than 70 percent of American teenagers are jobless over the summer. That’s the lowest […]
Adderall Abuse at Lower Merion High School Is the Focus of a New York Times Piece
A recent piece published in the New York Times focuses (see what we did there?) on the rampant abuse of Adderall and other “good-grade drugs” […]
FBI Investigates High School Senior Prank in Montco
A spreadsheet containing the GPAs and class rankings of 1,668 students was sent from an anonymous Gmail address to hundreds of Hatboro-Horsham High School students. […]
Creepy Friend Requests Aren’t the Thing to Fear on Pre-Teen Facebook
My two kids who are under the age of 13 don’t know about Facebook, and I could not be happier. They don’t care about Facebook […]
Disney to Ban Junk Food Ads From Programs for Children
No more Dunkaroos commercials for little Tommy and Sally. The Walt Disney Co. has announced that junk food ads will no longer appear on its […]
Local Girl Made the Finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee
Local Girl Comes Up Short in Spelling Bee Finals. Lena Greenberg, of Chestnut Hill, made it to to the Championship Finals of the Scripps National […]
Your Four-Year-Old Daughter Clearly Needs a Makeover
Of the 120 emails I received last weekend, one shouted out to me, and it wasn’t the one that said, “Score a homerun every night […]
There Is Not a Steve Jobs Inside All of Us
I remember the day I told my father I had chosen to major in sociology as an undergraduate at Temple University. He was paying for […]
Listen Up, Kindergarten Grads
It’s a pleasure to speak at your kindergarten graduation. I thoroughly enjoyed that stirring rendition of Hokey Pokey. I’m glad to see everybody got back […]
Father Judge Kids Should Be Glad They’re Not in a Washing Machine
My kids are annoyed because my birthday is the week before Mother’s Day. Surely I had nothing but time in utero, so I spent it […]
Girl at Mad River Crushing Empty Cans With Her Shoulder Blades
Do we really need to expand on that headline? Probably not, but just in case, a Deadspin reader sent in a video taken on his […]
Student Fires Shot in Atlantic City’s Oceanside Charter School
A student has reportedly fired a shot inside Atlantic City’s Oceanside Charter School. Oceanside Charter was the first public charter school in Atlantic City. Its […]