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Tag: child

Grief Vocabulary Test by Spencer Hyde

Posted on Jan 26, 2020Feb 24, 2020 by Germ Magazine guest author

It’s not that you need to know, really—just that I need to say it to someone. I can’t think of the word for it, but we’re learning about it in AP Lang right now. Disconsolate. I have a hard time remembering the definition, but I don’t think that’s it. Whatever. It’s not like it’s a […]

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Childhood by Alyssa Gibb

Posted on Nov 8, 2017Jun 22, 2018 by Germ Magazine guest author

I awoke to the smell of her cheap perfume filling the air. “Mom?” I asked confused.   “Get up,” she growled, scratching the skin of her neck. “Get dressed. I’m taking you somewhere.” She never stayed long unless she needed something, and the previous night she had been in a fight with my stepdad, because […]

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Child Eight by Elizabeth Gibson

Posted on Oct 5, 2016Nov 15, 2016 by Germ Magazine guest author

In one of my optimistic fantasies in which I finally am in a position to have kids, I and my partner have eight children between us and having long exhausted my childhood bible of names – Robin and Martha and Noelle and Rachel – and presumably hers too, we look down at our littlest – […]

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Let’s Talk About Neglect by Ophelia Monroe

Posted on Sep 21, 2016Oct 17, 2016 by Germ Magazine guest author

‘Let’s talk about neglect.’ Which part? The part where I was two skin shades darker because I never took a bath? I was covered in dirt and grime. Once my skin became reptilian. I was so dirty and dry. The part where the other kids didn’t like me? I cried too much and too randomly […]

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Man of the House by Lydia Suffield

Posted on Nov 13, 2015Nov 13, 2015 by Germ Magazine guest author

The boy died when he was walking home across the estate he’d walked across a hundred times before. It was a blade, a mistake, an older kid on a bike who thought he was someone else, someone who deserved a knife, deserved to lie there for an hour before he was found. The boy died […]

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A Little Less Than Normal

Posted on Aug 24, 2015Oct 4, 2015 by Chelsea Campbell

May 21st, I wanted to wake up happy and ready to celebrate my husband’s birthday. But I didn’t. I couldn’t. I fell into a restless sleep with tears rolling down my face the night before, and the realization that my 15-month-old son was deaf wasn’t any easier to handle as the sun came up. For a […]

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This Social Experiment Deals with Blindfolded Children Finding Their Moms

Posted on Apr 20, 2015 by Briana Bailey

The jewelry company Pandora put together this social experiment to celebrate the uniqueness of women and the special bond between a mother and her child. These kids are the cutest, and all of the moms were obviously moved by the results.   The video’s description explains the experiment itself:  The children were guided towards the […]

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See People with Disabilites through the Eyes of a Child

Posted on Jan 16, 2015Jan 15, 2015 by Violet Baudelaire

How do we view people with disabilities? Are we embarrassed by them? Are we embarrassed to speak about them? To play and laugh with them like we would with any other person? Sometimes I think that we show too much sympathy. We want to be supportive, and we are afraid to hurt their feelings; we […]

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For My Daughter by Tina Lear

Posted on Aug 25, 2014Nov 3, 2014 by Germ Magazine guest author

I missed out on feeling your handprints, sticky with doughnut frosting, on my face, on the face of my days. I missed out on being your personal dragon slayer, the guard at your childhood door, the one who saw, and did something. Sometimes I go back, and I’m at the kitchen window, and you come […]

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