Results for keyword: parents and children
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A brush with cowboy culture
A former ranch kid who now lives in Denver has mixed feeling when her 2-year-old tries "mutton-busting" at a rodeo.
by Amanda Leigh Mascarelli, Aug 29, 2010 -
Tough justice, hard fate
In Brian Hart's first novel, Then Came the Evening, people are trapped in a tragic drama partly of their own making.
by Tania Casselle, Aug 15, 2010 -
The Universe on Blacktop
A Colorado family finds satisfaction -- and cash -- in scavenging metal for recycling.
by Laura Pritchett , Mar 17, 2009 -
Raising cows -- and kids -- in the West
In The Family Ranch: Land, Children and Tradition in the American West, Linda Hussa looks at the way modern rural families live their lives.
by Linda M. Hasselstrom , Mar 16, 2009 -
What we love will save us
We are all, too much of the time, captives of the wreck and the mistake. Can’t take our eyes off it, can’t stop thinking about it, can’t stop picking that scab. We slide into our merely negative identity — defined by what we refuse...
by David Oates, Oct 16, 2006 -
Out of the video arcade and into the woods
In Last Child in the Woods, child advocate and journalist Richard Louv confronts what he calls "nature-deficit disorder" – the loss of the bond between children and nature today
by Linda Pohle, Sep 05, 2005
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