Tag: Parentology
Parentology: praising scribbling
PHILIP DE KEMMETER Recently, I went with my sister and my two sons to see the very beautiful “Monet-Mitchell” exhibition, which is being held at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in…
Parentology: are child killers the “monsters” of adults?
Helping your child grow, guiding him towards autonomy, is the goal of any parent, recalls Nicolas Santolaria. But the sordid various facts, like that of the murder of Lola, are…
Parentology: Corona-parents on the verge of a nervous breakdown
Gone are the educational dreams of the first confinements. The persistence of the virus has plunged parents into a pataphysical universe where rules and other protocols are invariably variable. When…
Parentology: will our children survive ludo-capitalism?
Daddy’s Monopoly is over. Behind the Pokémon or the Roblox platform, not so innocent amusements, it is the notions of market, gain and accumulation that are incorporated by budding players.source…
Parentology: Pictures of Naked Children, a Good Idea, Really?
The baby swimmer on the cover of Nirvana’s “Nevermind” record lodges a complaint against the photographer and the group, thirty years later. As our columnist points out, children today are…
Parentology: the tectonics of friends
Once you become parents, you do not choose your friends, your children choose them for you, in a way, notes our columnist. With the positive effect of putting an end…
Parentology: the battle of the sum
The young parent in need of full nights wanders the day like a zombie. Establishing a peace of the pillows with his children will offer him rest while teaching his…
Parentology: the child, this climatic proletarian
PHILIPPE DE KEMMETER Chronic. In her latest book, written with Rebecca Stefoff, Overcome climate and social injustice (Actes Sud, April 2021, 304 p., € 18.80), essayist Naomi Klein tells how,…
Parentology: the childhood of art
PHILIPPE DE KEMMETER Chronic. Even if it is never very good to make dichotomies, we can still argue that the adult world is divided into two very distinct categories: on…