Comments on: Turning 10

By: Catherine

Catherine — Fri, 19 May 2017 09:53:32 +0000

I think what people mean with the “where did the time go?” comments is that there never would have been enough time. My son is turning 10 at the end of the month, and I think he’s an awesome almost-10-year-old, but I miss him as a baby, and a toddler, and a preschooler, and a 6-year-old. I do know where the time went, and a decade is a really long time, but I still feel like it went too fast.

By: lauravanderkam

lauravanderkam — Thu, 18 May 2017 15:22:31 +0000

In reply to Jamie. @Jamie- virtue went out with hair powder! That's funny. Yep, the ancient Greeks complained about their students. Young people have always annoyed old people. Probably vice versa too :)

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 18 May 2017 15:11:12 +0000

PS If you’re looking for an off-the-beaten-path summer read, I’m having a lot of fun with Martin Chuzzlewit.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 18 May 2017 15:06:13 +0000

Welcome to your second decade of motherhood!

Enjoyed the WSJ review. Recently I have been grousing about millennials myself — I had a doozy of a finals week, with a couple of memorably difficult conversations with students (<- euphemism alert!). Living on the edge of a college campus also means I have a front seat for antics which bring out my inner curmudgeon, like texting while skateboarding.

I am indulging in my annual post-finals escape, during which I read one of the fat Dickens novels in what's left of May. I was amused to read about the tavern guests who insisted "that virtue went out with hair-powder." Their pessimism seems to have been unwarranted, so perhaps I should tamp mine down as well.

By: lauravanderkam

lauravanderkam — Tue, 16 May 2017 23:03:18 +0000

In reply to Cloud. @Cloud- thanks for the book suggestion! I'm having a fun time sort of letting my interests dictate whatever I read next...

By: Cloud

Cloud — Tue, 16 May 2017 19:55:54 +0000

Happy birthday to your oldest! And happy 10th anniversary of motherhood to you. Eric Barker was the keynote speaker at a conference I spoke at a couple of weeks ago. He was a really good speaker, and I was sorry to have missed the first part of his talk while I was getting registered as a speaker. I was particularly intrigued by his discussion of self-compassion, which he was almost done with when I came in. I wondered if it was covered in his book. Now that I know it is, maybe I’ll pick it up! And since you’re looking for a Genghis Khan bio: I read Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, by Jack Weatherford, several years ago and really liked it.