► “I can talk about the rules with my boyfriend” Louise, 20 years “I was not surprised by my first period. My mother had already explained to me well but without going into details. I did not know how to put a tampon for example, I learned by talking about it with friends. In school, […]
At 19, Margaux remembers: “I had been told a little about puberty but there were still plenty of gray areas. With my friends, we looked for answers in specialized guides for girls. My parents were very modest. My mom thought I knew what the rules were. We discussed this when I first had them. She […]
How to spread your wings when you live under a bell? How to find a place in the wide world when it retracts? While the health crisis is taking hold over time, many parents see it every day under their roof: their children are living a truncated youth. “My son never leaves his room”, Louise, […]
“I let him go to sleep with friends at night” Sylvain, 43, father of three children “This period is very complicated for my eldest son, in terminal. He must pass his baccalaureate at the end of the year but he already knows that the specialty tests will be done in continuous assessment. As his grades […]
If you are over 30, you may not know what “Askip” means, an acronym for “As it seems”. Commonly used by young people, this term is also used as the title of one of the most popular TV series of the moment among college students. The first season, launched on Okoo during the lockdown in […]
At the beginning of the year, at the time of good resolutions, some teenage girls will perhaps begin to keep a “bullet journal”, literally a “journal to kill time”. What insiders call “BuJo” looks like a notebook in schoolboy format, with completely white pages, on which only dots are wisely aligned. Hybrid object Guided by […]
Britain has been a fertile ground for fantasy since the genre’s inception in the Victorian era. The literary series At the crossroads of worlds was born at the same time as Harry Potter, in the mid-1990s. If the saga invented by Philip Pullman did not have the same generational impact (nor the immense success in […]
It’s a surprise in the publishing world. In a few weeks, Léna Mahlouf (better known under the name of Léna Situations) ranked at the top of the best sales in bookstores, ahead, for example, of Emmanuel Carrère and his story Yoga. Something to surprise adults and specialists in the sector, but not the youngest. → […]
Dragomino (Blue Orange) Children’s adaptation of the famous game Kingdomino, Dragomino plunges us into a very happy fantasy world. Each player embodies a dragon trainer tasked with collecting as many eggs as possible during their journey through different ecosystems: desert, meadow, forest… The game mechanics reinvent the principle of dominoes: you draw tiles to create […]
While this re-entry is marked by terrorism and the health crisis, in what state of mind are children and adolescents approaching re-entry? There are the placid and the stressed. So, while she is going to find her class of 3e in Paris, Louise wonders. “With winter time, it will be dark when we go out. […]