This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Babysitting used to be both a job and a rite of passage. For countless American teens, and especially teen ...

One teen learned that babysitting brought stress, low pay, and constant boundary-pushing from adults. So when her dad’s ...

There’s a mythology in cinema about kids who find themselves in a situation where they improbably and comically outsmart adults. It’s a predicament that drives the plot forward, believability be ...

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