Kids Today
Bullied Delco Boy Dies After Two Months in Coma
ABC News reports: Bailey O’Neill died Sunday, a family member who did not want to be named, confirmed to ABCNews.com. Bailey turned 12 on Saturday. […]
32-Year-Old Man Sues Parents, Says They Made Him Fail Life
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Or maybe it’s only that desperate people grasp at straws … and lawsuits. Bernard Bey, a 32-year-old homeless man from […]
Miss Delaware Teen USA Resigns, Denies Sex Tape
Ick. Yuck. Gross. But here it is: Gawker is reporting that Melissa King, Miss Delaware Teen USA, has resigned “amid claims that she appeared in […]
West Chester School Uses Yoga Balls Instead of Character-Building Chairs
AP reports on Robby Giuliano’s fifth-grade class at Westtown-Thornbury Elementary School in West Chester, where she’s replaced uncomfortable wooden and plastic chairs with … yoga balls: […]
Philly 9-Year-Old To Run Antarctic Marathon, Making Your Life Pretty Much a Failure
One of these days, I’m going to get around to losing some weight, maybe even start training for a 5K. Today, I’d rather get a […]
West Philly’s Zora Ball is Youngest Video Game Creator Ever
Jezebel reports: “Pint-sized programming wizard Zora Ball is now the youngest person to create a full version of a mobile application video game. A first […]
If All Jeopardy Answers Were This Good, People Would Watch Jeopardy
Yesterday’s Teen Jeopardy! finale (Like “Panic! At the Disco” and “FUN.” we could do without the punctuation, Trebek) featured perhaps the greatest final Jeopardy answer […]
“Generation Light”: The Brave New World of Not Owning Stuff
One of those ubiquitous articles about the death of print journalism—this one from Editor & Publisher, written by “new media consultant” Alan D. Mutter—has introduced […]
WATCH: Kids at Tree House Books Talk About Making the World Better
You’ve probably seen this viral video of “Kid President” giving a pep talk to viewers. In response, Vimeo user Lauren Macaluso has uploaded this video […]
PA Principal Stops Stocking H.S. Boys’ Bathroom With Toilet Paper
The boys at Mahanoy Area High School are shit out of luck. Okay, bad joke, I agree, but it’s a fair way to describe the […]
Fire School Officials Who Suspended PA Kindergartner for “Terroristic Threat”
It is time to immediately boot all school administrators who had any involvement in suspending a five-year-old kindergartener from the Mount Carmel Area Elementary School […]
What if Lena Dunham Were a Man?
As I write this, the much-publicized second season of Lena Dunham’s Girls is about to premiere on HBO. I won’t be watching. I want to […]
Study: Modern Parenting Is Ruining Your Kid’s Brain
“Life outcomes for American youth are worsening, especially in comparison to 50 years ago.” So claims this new study presented at the University of Notre […]
Why Is Girl Who Empathized With Adam Lanza Being Vilified?
I’m trying to wrap my mind around what happened with Courtni Webb, the high-school senior who got suspended for writing a poem in which she […]
A Look Back at the Year in Fat-Shaming
I was surprised to read last week that rates of childhood obesity in some U.S. cities, Philadelphia included, are actually down. According to the New […]