by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 16, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
For a while yesterday morning I worked while Saskia “worked,” which is to say we set up an unplugged landline phone, a defunct, old laptop and some paper with a real pen as opposed to a marker. Later in the day, there was a period when I worked while the...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 18, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
Triumph comes in such unexpected ways. Here’s an example: the just-turned ten year-old is not a performer by nature. He shies away from center stage. Wouldn’t you know we put him in a school that does a ton of singing, and where performances of many kinds...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 21, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
When faced with a buzz cut, this was Saskia’s initial solution. The rest of it—how she felt, hair as identity—I am still mulling. I’ll say this; even four-and-a-half year-olds care about their hair. Recently, her friend Arlo came home from...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 23, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
[Admin note: words have been obscured only because of an overload of spam commentary attached to this post.] “Girls have tiny, tiny, teeny-tiny p*****s.” –Saskia, four-and-a-half She went on to say, “That’s what a v****a is, a teeny-tiny...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 26, 2012 | Standing In The Shadows
Over the weekend, I wrote about a Planned Parenthood initiative to get parents to talk about sex with their teens. One of the themes offered by Planned Parenthood is that you don’t have one talk—you know, the talk—with your kids. You talk, as in more...
