Lori Gottlieb’s recent article in The Atlantic has been on my mind for the last few weeks. Titled “How to Land Your Kid in Therapy,” it’s about a potential epidemic of generational malaise, or how the contemporary parental obsession in creating idyllic childhoods for kids may end up leaving these same kids unprepared for the…

A couple of interesting statements in this recent interview with Brad Pitt, who is raising six kids with Angelina Jolie. (Their adopted kids are Maddox, 9, Pax, 7, and Zahara, 6, along with their biological children Shiloh, 5, and twins Knox and Vivienne, who are 2.) The first is about how fatherhood has impacted his career…

Fascinating interview at Slate today with Jeff Ryan, author of Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America (which releases tomorrow). I haven’t read the book, but in the interview, Ryan discusses the evolution of the Super Mario Bros. universe and what made it such a popular, groundbreaking game. In addition to talking about how Mario became…

My poor kids. They had the (debatable) fortune of growing in the age of video-on-demand, instant music downloads, and cars equipped with DVD players. But they had the misfortune of growing up in a world without Mr. Rogers. They know the Muppets. They were aware of Sesame Street and the Smurfs and other touchstones of…

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