At least, I am always amazed at what she picks up. The scary part is that she picks up everything! Good and bad, I see and hear myself in her sometimes and think, “Oh no, do I sound like that?”. I see my little mirror and have to accept that I had some responsibility for molding her.
I took notice of how many parents would take their children with them to places and never talk to them, so the best advice I would give a first time mom is not to take her child for granted in this respect. Children are smart and absorb everything, we already know that, but how young a child learns language and [...]
by Dan Farnum For many recent years the FBI has designated my hometown of Saginaw, Michigan as having the most violent crimes per capita in the country. Flint and Detroit are also frequently listed in the top ten. These photographs investigate the condition of cities and neighborhoods in Michigan after years of economic decomposition. This work documents the people who [...]
I taught her sign language and before she could talk, she signed the next word in a song that I would sing her to sleep with. That was my first realization of how smart children are if we pay attention to them and give them the tools.
by Dan Farnum For many recent years the FBI has designated my hometown of Saginaw, Michigan as having the most violent crimes per capita in the country. Flint and Detroit are also frequently listed in the top ten. These photographs investigate the condition of cities and neighborhoods in Michigan after years of economic decomposition. This work documents the people who [...]
by Dan Farnum For many recent years the FBI has designated my hometown of Saginaw, Michigan as having the most violent crimes per capita in the country. Flint and Detroit are also frequently listed in the top ten. These photographs investigate the condition of cities and neighborhoods in Michigan after years of economic decomposition. This work documents the people who [...]
Mercedes Dorame Gaps exist in memory, history hangs by threads and anxiety about authenticity and value seeps through the cracks. Through my work I seek to regenerate to connective tissue of personal and collective meaning to reconstruct a whole. As part of a Native American tribe from Los Angeles that was once declared extinct by history books, I [...]
This is also where I could have done better as a parent. Sometimes I would be so involved in my plans to provide good nutrition for her, to do this and that for her, and would not listen to her when she would try to tell me she was not hungry or didn’t want to do this and that. I [...]
by Dan Farnum For many recent years the FBI has designated my hometown of Saginaw, Michigan as having the most violent crimes per capita in the country. Flint and Detroit are also frequently listed in the top ten. These photographs investigate the condition of cities and neighborhoods in Michigan after years of economic decomposition. This work documents the people who [...]
Time outs, whether for reflection or behaviors didn’t work. Taking favorite toys away meant nothing to her. Talking mostly didn’t work. This child was going to teach me what it was really like to raise a child, a child with a strong will.
