Your child is not your buddy. You have to be the boss
There are many reasons you should watch Adolescence. Not least to revel in Philip Barantini’s directing triumph, in which, as ...
The Australian26d
Is ‘gentle parenting’ ruining our kids?
Perry’s book, pressed onto most new parents, summarises the entire genre that I will call “parent, heal thyself”. Poet Philip Larkin, photographed in 1979, wrote of generational misery.
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Paul Crawford's novel 'The Wonders of Doctor Bent' exposes dark parental abuse, challenging Philip Larkin's view
In The Wonders of Doctor Bent, the abuse of parents is darkly clear. There is no sugar coating. Unlike Philip Larkin, who gruffly and famously kept readers at arm’s length, I welcome them.
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Helicopter parents have ruined reading. These are the books that terrified us as children
Philip Larkin for three-year-olds ... It flew into my world when I was about six years old. It was not a book my parents read to me, rather one I found and was drawn to. Tempted by the vivid drawings, ...
These are Scotland's 10 greatest poets - and none of them are dead
It’s surely something to celebrate that the most famous Scot in world history is a poet. Royalty and dictators get far too much attention as ...
The New Yorker2d
The Deaths—and Lives—of Two Sons
The truth is that however I choose to express myself will not live up to the weight of these facts: Vincent died, and then ...
The Irish Times24d
Colum McCann on his new book: ‘You could actually take down the world’s internet ... with a fleet of 20 ships’
There are what McCann calls echoes from the garden of literature, small homages to writers such as Gerard Manley Hopkins, Herman Melville, Philip Larkin ... Jeff Bezos’s parents, Mike and ...