Author name: Laura Bennett

Eleven is the year the phone arrives. Not always literally — some families hold off longer, and good for them. […]

Ten feels like a threshold. It’s the last single-digit year — a fact that ten-year-olds are often acutely aware of,

There’s a particular kind of quiet that settles over a house when a nine-year-old is reading. It’s different from the

Eight is the age when children start choosing books you didn’t pick for them. I noticed it first at the

Something clicks at seven that is genuinely different from everything before it. My daughter was seven when she came downstairs

There’s a moment that happens around age six that catches a lot of parents off guard. Your child picks up

The week before kindergarten, my daughter asked me a question I wasn’t ready for. We were halfway through a chapter

Something happens right around the fourth birthday that no one really warns you about. Your child stops just listening to

She grabbed the book herself. That was the moment I didn’t see coming. My daughter was 22 months old, barely

It was 7:52 PM on a Wednesday. My daughter was standing on the couch in her pajamas, holding Goodnight Moon