
The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us

She wondered, sometimes, if the whole country had fallen into a Jerry Springer episode.
Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller

The invention of ‘childhood’ and the regulation of what work ‘children’ could do only came fifteen hundred years later and is still a peculiarly Western preoccupation.
Mary Beard • SPQR

Gen X kids, whose family issues weren’t always simple.
Jean M. Twenge • Generations
Certain questions which grown-ups deem unanswerable begin as answers which children find unquestionable.