 | A hasty promise; name change after marriage Jan 16th 2013, 22:42 Adapted from a recent online discussion. Hi, Carolyn: A lot of backstory and angst go along with this story, but I'll keep it short: I'm in my 20s, and I got in a car accident with my dad and stepmom's car. I did not borrow the car for fun; I was visiting them from my home a few hours away and needed to pick up prescriptions. Read full article >>   | | Should kids vote? We asked our readers. Jan 16th 2013, 21:09 In Sunday's KidsPost, we asked readers what they thought about a proposal in Germany to let kids vote. Here's what some readers said. Look here Tuesday for more kids' opinions on the voting age. →"I think the voting age should be 10 years old because you can read, listen to some news, make up your mind . . . and don't believe superheros are real anymore." Read full article >>   | | Maryland boy going to Super Bowl after writing about Redskins quarterback Jan 16th 2013, 21:08 The Washington Redskins are not going to the Super Bowl this year, but one of their biggest fans is. Hunter Paulin, a fourth-grader from Indian Head, Maryland, won the NFL Play 60 Super Bowl contest. That means Hunter, his parents and his older brother Brandon will be flying to New Orleans for the big game. Hunter will run onto the field and hand the ball to a game official before the opening kickoff on February 3. Read full article >>   | | Inauguration 2013: Test your presidential trivia knowledge Jan 16th 2013, 20:02 How much do you know know about the presidents? Do you know how many there have been? Can you name them? In order? Backward? If you answered "yes" to those questions, maybe you won't find "The Smithsonian Book of Presidential Trivia" fascinating. But if you're stumped by whether it was Millard Fillmore or Franklin Pierce who was our 13th president, then we think you'll love the book, which is full of fascinating information — not just about the presidents who have lived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the address of the White House, but also their wives, children — and even their pets! (For example, Laddy Boy, an Airedale terrier who was President Warren G. Harding's dog, was even more famous in his day than the Obamas' Portuguese water dog Bo is today.) Read full article >>   | | Write a letter to President Obama at The Post Jan 16th 2013, 20:01 If you're coming downtown Monday for the inauguration ceremonies, KidsPost invites you to stop by The Washington Post building at 1150 15th St. NW between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. In the front lobby of the building, we'll have tables set up where you can write a letter to President Obama, telling him what you think his goals should be for his second term. We'll hang some of the letters in the front window of The Post and we'll deliver them all to the White House. Read full article >>   | | Hareem Abdullah, a Girl Scout from Sterling, speaks out in a letter to President Obama Jan 16th 2013, 19:47 Have you ever wondered about the power of words? Short words, long words, easy words, ones that are hard to spell: No matter the shape, words help express feelings, describe places, inform or change someone's mind. Words helped reelect President Barack Obama. And as he gives his inaugural address to the nation Monday, you might hear such words as "oath," "peace," "crisis," "challenge" and "hope." Read full article >>   | | Inauguration 2013: Fun facts and figures Jan 16th 2013, 19:43 Amaze your parents, siblings and friends with these facts about the history of swearing in presidents. A really big word: "Inauguration," pronounced in-aw-gyu-RAY-shun, is a five-syllable word, and we don't usually use five-syllable words in KidsPost. It comes from Latin and means "to be installed under good omens or signs." We think that's pretty cool. Read full article >>   | | Hey, isn't that . . . ?: John Corbett Jan 16th 2013, 19:24 • John Corbett with a heavy new beard — looking very Jeff-Bridges-in-"Crazy Heart," in fact — at the Hamilton Tuesday night. The actor, known for his work on "Northern Exposure" and "Sex and the City," was in town to do a lobbying charm offensive on behalf of the recording industry at a "Grammys on the Hill" event Wednesday — he's also a country singer, it turns out. Read full article >> | | New book records Virginia's plants Jan 16th 2013, 17:01 Early on in the project, Lara Call Gastinger would collect plant specimens in the Piedmont of central Virginia. Later when her first son arrived, and then her second son, other biologists would send her wildflowers through the mail, or the flora would just show up in a cooler placed at her front door. Read full article >>   | | Tomato growing starts with picking seeds Jan 16th 2013, 16:50 Seduction season is upon us, as seed catalogues roll off the presses and tomatoes — the gardener's obsession — bounce off the pages and into our dreams. "Step right up, folks," Burpee's cover seems to say, luring you into the sideshow of the biggest and the best. On that cover, the "world's largest sauce tomato," called SuperSauce, is coming at you like a fast pitch. Just one fruit, we're told, shown actual size and weighing two pounds, will fill a sauce jar. Saucemakers will swoon. Read full article >>   | |
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