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How to talk to kids about race

When her daughter decided blonde was best, a red flag went up for Pragya Agarwal. In this essay, the behavioural scientist discusses childhood development, race and representation.

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An insider’s view of Play Well

Curator Shamita Sharmacharja offers behind-the-scenes insights into an exhibition about the serious business of play.

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Sex in graphic novels

Sex and sexuality have long been explored in the history of the graphic novel.

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This is a MOOD

Adults might sometimes dismiss teenagers’ ‘moodiness’, but adolescence is a time of complex shifts in brain and body, which are intricately bound up with fluctuating feelings.

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  • A boy tears up his school textbooks in a fit of anger against his education. Engraving W.C. Wrankmore after C. Wrankmore.
  • Children's Minimum Council leaflets
  • Playground of the Home and Colonial Infant School Society, London. Wood engraving, c. 1840.
  • A Japanese family all dressed in black explaining how they are dealing with HIV; an AIDS-prevention advertisement to promote World AIDS Day by the Japanese Foundation for AIDS Prevention. Colour lithograph, ca. 1993.
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