I love the feeling of space when I’m feeling expansive.
I love the feeling of enclosure when I’m feeling comforted.
This would be why sad children seek hugs, crawl under tables, and sleep well in small spaces. This would also explain why gyms, fields, and hallways are so conducive to running.
I was reminded of this yesterday at [...]
I suppose in a country where going to a play on Broadway can cost a couple hundred dollars a ticket, it shouldn’t be a surprise that the neighborhood children’s theatres are following in their footsteps with tickets ranging from about $20-$35. Even here, in what feels like the middle of nowhere New Hampshire, if [...]
I have written a few times about bringing children to the theatre. It’s a valuable field trip: theatres feel different. They feel exotic. Even when they’re well-used and run down. But who creates theatre for children and how do you find it?
Not surprisingly, more and more professional companies are creating interesting, beautiful, and challenging works [...]
As promised in my last post, what follows is the result of goals above and beyond what a toddler can actually do:
My daughter was about 2 years and three months. Verbally precocious and experienced in theatre (both her parents are theatre professionals), I took her to a holiday musical revue performed by the local children’s [...]
I while back, I wrote some tips about taking your child to the theatre for the first time.
Luckily, I started out by following my own advice.
At about 20 months I took my daughter, Avi, to see a children’s play as performed by high school students, City Mouse and Country Mouse. About 40-minutes long, it was [...]