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Generations: The Hidden Curriculum of High School

June 4, 2026

When I look back at my junior year of high school, I think not only of my experiences with friends, my grades, and my favorite activities, but also of what I’ve learned along the way. Although school is mainly designed to teach…

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Generations: Making the Choice with College Tour vs. Glossy Brochure

July 26, 2024

If you are a Belmont parent of a teenager, odds are good that you will visit a college campus this summer. We register for tours, make the drive, search for the visitors’ center, follow the earnest tour guide walking backward, and hope…

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Garden Gems: BHS Native Plant Garden, One Year In

July 25, 2024

When Belmont High School students Shea Brams and Francesca Kitch were in the Climate Action Club back in 2020, they had the germ of an idea: a garden of native plants on the grounds of the newly built school. They didn’t imagine…

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Generations: Cyber Parenting: Navigating Social Media with My Kids

July 23, 2024

About six years ago, when my son was a fifth-grader at Chenery Middle School, I attended a parent workshop sponsored by the school guidance department called “Navigating the Cyber World.”It was billed as reviewing “the challenges and dangerous situations that may arise…

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Generations: Summer Jobs Can Build Memories (and Bank Accounts)

July 16, 2024

What’s your vision of a perfect summer day? Mine includes an afternoon swim at Crane Beach with good friends, a lunch of lobster rolls and lemonade, followed by a trip to Rancatore’s as the sun is setting. What my daydream usually omits…

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Generations: Crossing the Generational Divide Through Science

June 30, 2024

For the past seven years, eighth-grade science teacher Jonathan Marks, a 2022 recipient of the Foundation for Belmont Education’s Outstanding Teacher Award, has invited me to speak to his class about genome engineering. My PhD in genetics and career as a scientist…

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Generations: Gen X Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

June 24, 2024

Summer is supposed to be fun, right? My teens now have their own busy lives, my summer work schedule is flexible. I should be out there doing… Well, I’m not sure exactly what. After so many years centered around family activities, which,…

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Generations: Gen Z Needs a Break from Summer Break

June 18, 2024

I’ve always loved summer. When I was younger, the first days of summer meant the end of homework, pop quizzes, and stifling classrooms, and the beginning of lazy days at Walden Pond and cool evening walks to Moozy’s or Payson Park. Summer…

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Garden Gems: Mayapples, Bumblebees, and Box Turtles

June 9, 2024

Mayapples, Podophyllum peltatum, are an interesting native woodland plant. Their wide (around one foot) deeply lobed leaves are carried singly or in pairs on 12 to 15-inch stems; a group of them resembles an encampment of green umbrellas, rather like an illustration…

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Generations: The Present Can Be All We Have

June 4, 2024

One of the sorrows of age is growing old enough to have lost touch with others. One of the pleasures is being young enough to find them again. During the pandemic, when we all individualized our forms of escape, I began writing…

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Generations: Generation X Choose Your Midlife Crisis Wisely

May 25, 2024

There was a time when the phrase “midlife crisis” may have conjured images of expensive sports cars, scandalous affairs, or perhaps simply a dedicated commitment to couch potatoism. Those tropes have changed with Generation X as we move solidly into middle age.…

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