Folklore
Lullabies are frequently not comforting
Songs sung to get children to sleep share musical features across the world and, in their words, cover subjects a great deal darker than the tune suggests.
Topic
children
Every Kohopoho article tagged children — 3 pieces across 2 sections.
Language & Words
Children who grow up with three languages
Multilingual childhood is the global norm rather than the exception, and most of the anxieties attached to it in monolingual societies are not supported.
Folklore
Changeling stories and what they were really about
Tales of a child swapped for something else appear across northern Europe and beyond. Reading them as explanations rather than as fantasy makes them considerably darker and more useful.