I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
I should be a poster child for CTE.
I'm the poster child for cyber bullying. It's hurtful.
I'm now the poster child for not believing everything I'm told.
Give consideration to the fact that alien astronomers could have scrutinized Earth for more than 4 billion years without detecting any radio signals, despite the fact that our world is the poster child for habitability.
I suffered from a mild case of postpartum depression after my second child and the physical challenge of maintaining an overnight shift at CBS, a marriage, and two in diapers made the symptoms worse and everyone in the house paid the price.
As a child, I was prancing around in my mother's high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing 'Material Girl' into my hairbrush.
I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.
The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy.
If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
In many ways, the very notion of school choice operates under a false pretense - an assumption that every child has the same set of choices to make and the same places to choose from.
When I was growing up, hand washing was a ritual, but now it's a necessity. A child dies every 15 seconds from preventable causes, which has got to stop.
I will take to my grave with me the atmosphere of the first 'Cursed Child' preview, because no one knew anything. Only very rarely have I been able to deploy the phrase 'audible gasps.'
You have to prioritize what you stress about when you have a child.
Historically, there has been a clear and essential connection between marriage and responsible procreation and child rearing.
Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.
For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.
Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.
As a child, when asked what I would be, I usually said I was going to be a huntsman. A fine profession, truly!
Football should never be a worry. It should be exciting. When a child plays football outside, he doesn't need to worry. Professionals should be the same.
