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Voices In Time

1787 | England

The Proper Nutriment

Whenever a child asks a question, it should always have a reasonable answer given it.More

Voices In Time

1905 | Vienna

Oral Fixation

Sigmund Freud on thumbsucking as the road to darker pleasures.More

Voices In Time

1904 | Massachusetts

Coming to Maturity

G. Stanley Hall charts the birth of the teenager. More

Voices In Time

2014 | Northern California

Veneration of Youth

Noam Scheiber on cosmetic surgery in Silicon Valley.More

Voices In Time

1742 | Northampton, MA

More Hateful than Vipers

Jonathan Edwards and the littlest demons. More

Voices In Time

1688 | France

Little Monsters

Idleness, indolence, and laziness, vices so natural to children, disappear as soon as they begin to play.More

Voices In Time

1890 | London

Golden Days

Oscar Wilde on the only thing that matters. More

Voices In Time

1943 | Washington, DC

Blaming the Parents

J. Edgar Hoover puts teens in time out. More

Voices In Time

1878 | Grez-Sur-Long

Child’s Play

Robert Louis Stevenson locates the wellspring of romance.More

Voices In Time

c. 1883 | Günsbach

Status Anxiety

Albert Schweitzer on the terror of not fitting in. More

Voices In Time

1841 | Concord, MA

Godlike Independence

Ralph Waldo Emerson on educating the self. More

Voices In Time

1845 | Germany

Just Deserts

The great tall tailor always comes to little boys that suck their thumbs.More

Voices In Time

1917 | Edinburgh

A Glimmer of Goodbye

No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells. More

Voices In Time

c. 1330 | Kyoto

A Time for Ruin

The old are as superior to the young in wisdom as the young are superior to the old in looks.More

Voices In Time

1861 | Mississippi River

Milk & Rosy Laughter

Anthony Trollope is astonished by spoiled American babies.More

Voices In Time

1898 | London

Young and at Sea

Joseph Conrad sets sail for points eastward.More

Voices In Time

c. 1640 | Oxford

Like Father, Like Son

We are plagued and punished for our fathers’ defaults.More

Voices In Time

c. 1100 | Germany

Arranging an Introduction

Herman Hesse falls in love. More

Voices In Time

c. 1890 | Dublin

Report Card

James Joyce catalogues the voices on the the playground.More

Voices In Time

c. 625 BC | Sparta

Trials of Strength

If the child was weakly and deformed, they ordered it to be thrown into a deep cavern.More

Voices In Time

1844 | Foleshill

Nothing of Hell and Satan

George Eliot argues for the increase of happiness with age.More

Voices In Time

1900 | Albany

Boys to Men

Theodore Roosevelt has great expectations for the American boy.More

Voices In Time

8 | Tomis

Love at First Sight

Child, what you seek is nowhere to be found, your beloved is lost when you avert your eyes. More

Voices In Time

1845 | Quincy, MA

The Boys of New England

Henry Adams on whence he came.More

Voices In Time

1817 | London

Occupational Hazard

For chimneysweeps, it’s a hard-knock life. More

Voices In Time

1487 | Germany

Going to the Devil

A witch who was burned confessed that she had killed more than forty children.More

Voices In Time

c. 885 | Kyūshū

Count Your Blessings

A medieval guilt trip encourages children to be grateful for their suppers.More

Voices In Time

c. 600 BC | Greece

Wrong Move

Aesop’s fable warns against the follies of youth. More

Voices In Time

1876 | Nice

Paths to Glory

Marie Bashkirtseff’s dramatic teenage diary.More

Voices In Time

c. 1525 | Shangxi Province

Human Capital

I ask her, “Why do you wish to sell your son?”More

Voices In Time

1924 | Seattle

Difference of Opinion

Mary McCarthy’s Catholic girlhood.More

Voices In Time

c. 1865 | Malden, WV

The Spelling Book

Booker T. Washington goes to night school. More

Voices In Time

1924 | Geneva

Five-Point Plan

The child that is backward must be helped.More

Voices In Time

1918 | Worcester, MA

Elizabeth Bishop Joins the Club

I said to myself: three days and you’ll be seven years old.More

Voices In Time

c. 150 | Athens

Beauty and the Beast

Zeus and Ganymede get paternal. More

Voices In Time

1746 | Bath

Life Lessons

I know how unwelcome advice generally is; I know that those who want it most like it and follow it least.More

Voices In Time

c. 1550 | Shanyin

Sweet and Cold

What a shame that I have carried a boy, as he ate some candy, to his death.More

Voices In Time

c. 1771 | Loir-et-Cher

Postgraduate Education

The resemblance of children in schools or colleges is the effect of constraint.More

Voices In Time

1837 | London

Poor Stupid Me

Young Victoria is all aflutter on the day she learns she is queen.More

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