Recent writing in the Chicago Tribune:

My piece on Maurice Sendak in the Chicago Tribune:

Claiming Maurice Sendak

By Miven Trageser
May 11, 2012

Maurice Sendak belonged to me. He wasn’t yours. I read him more, I loved him better. You could like him, but he was mine.

When you are little you own your favorites. Favorite color, favorite number, favorite animal, favorite toy and book, these are things adults ask you and you have an answer, and it matters. It is one of the few channels you have to express “who you are.” And so you howl when you get the wrong color plate as it carries all the weight of identity. [Read more]

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Los Angeles Times Editorial on Technology and Parenting

March 14, 2012

Technology needs to be a group project: “Trying to work these decisions out separately in each family is not practical in a social medium. If we step up now, we have the opportunity to develop our own culture for online life, one that is grounded in our own, local values.” My Op Ed in the [...]

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Some Links

January 5, 2012

1. I knew this subliminally when I went searching for unsalted mini rice cakes in a sleep-deprived haze: LATimes–Giving Babies Salty Foods May Create Lifelong Preference 2. You try to make them into independent, resilient, strong people and then you have to live with independent, resilient, strong people! NPR: Teens Talking Back –Nuisance or Path to [...]

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Some published pieces

October 4, 2011

Here are links to clips of mine published in the media. This is an editorial about safety, danger and precautions that I wrote after a particularly awful murder of a child: http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-07-17/news/ EXCERPT: “We should stop considering children as objects to protect and think of them more as verbs, in motion – which they are [...]

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RadioLab: From babies to furbys

October 3, 2011

I am having a great time listening to RadioLab podcasts lately. Here is one with Alison Gopnik, psychology professor and baby expert, talking about games. She talks about the difference in toddlers’ play and the rule-obsessed play of second grade, and somehow we get from there to the World Championship of Chess. Just listen. http://www.radiolab.org/2011/aug/23/rules-set-you-free/ [...]

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