Childhood and adolescence

videoChildhood and adolescence
A neglected Dominican sugar town, as seen through the eyes of a 12-year-old local
11 minutes

essayChildhood and adolescence
Society needs hope
Youths around the world are in a profound crisis of despair. Adults must help them to believe that the future will be better
Carol Graham

videoChildhood and adolescence
‘Do worms cry?’ – and other questions collected from the mind of a curious child
4 minutes

videoWar and peace
Two Ukrainian boys’ summer unfolds just miles from the frontlines
22 minutes

videoTechnology and the self
The commodified childhood – scenes from two sisters’ lives in the creator economy
14 minutes

essayChildhood and adolescence
Hegemony and childcare
Early childhood development interventions in the Global South is a huge industry built on highly questionable assumptions
Francesca Mezzenzana & Gabriel Scheidecker

videoSports and games
Havana’s streets become racetracks in this exhilarating portrait of children at play
5 minutes

videoChildhood and adolescence
The police camp where tween girls enter a sisterhood of law and order
28 minutes

videoChildhood and adolescence
Marmar is living through a devastating war – but she’d rather tell you about her new dress
8 minutes

videoMeaning and the good life
Wander through the English countryside with two teens trying to make sense of the world
10 minutes

essayRituals and celebrations
Tender, yet creepy
Dolls help children create wonderfully vivid and imaginative worlds, while also serving as unsettling reminders of the abyss
Tishani Doshi

videoEducation
Scenes from a school year paint a refreshingly nuanced portrait of rural America
25 minutes

videoBiography and memoir
Preserving memories of a Japanese internment camp, and the land where it stood
8 minutes

videoChildhood and adolescence
The unique fellowship between teens and young puffins on a remote Icelandic island
20 minutes

essayPsychiatry and psychotherapy
The therapist who hated me
Going to a child psychoanalyst four times a week for three years was bad enough. Reading what she wrote about me was worse
Michael Bacon

essayGender and identity
Silencing of the girls
Girls are still in a bad bargain with patriarchy: the price of relationship is keeping their true thoughts to themselves
Carol Gilligan

videoChildhood and adolescence
Striking shadow puppetry illuminates a skater kid’s memories of Boy Scout camp
12 minutes

essayStories and literature
The best stories smell
When scents are used to intensify a narrative, they heighten young readers’ emotions and enrich their memory banks
Natalia Kucirkova

videoReligion
From God’s shoes to satellites in heaven – children weigh in on religion
8 minutes

essayHuman evolution
How to grow a human
Our childhood is preposterously long compared to other animals. Is it the secret to our evolutionary success?
Brenna Hassett

essayFamily life
Amazonian childcare
In the eyes of the Runa people, Western kids grow up indulged, over-mothered and incapable of facing outward to the world
Francesca Mezzenzana

essayEducation
Unschooling
It takes nerve to go against the grain and take your child out of school. But, for some, that’s when learning really starts
Naomi Fisher & Heidi Steel

videoLife stages
At 14, Asal is excited about her engagement. Her relatives all have their own opinions
33 minutes

essayPersonality
Born that way
Confident or shy, our temperament is mostly baked-in from birth. But how that influences our lives is up for grabs
Gina Mireault