Selah and the Spades: an Overture (2014), the multi-media exploration into the dynamism of teenagehood in a fictional small town that her first feature film is based on, has been profiled by Filmmaker Magazine and IndieWire, and the feature film has gone on to receive development grants and support from Cinereach, the Leeway Foundation, and Small But Mighty Arts, among others. (sundance.org)
While Lady Bird revels in the hyper - specificities of suburban teenagehood in the early aughts (Dave Matthews Band songs, puka shell necklaces, TV news consumed by the burgeoning war in Iraq), it also waxes universal about young love and sex, class and mother - daughter dynamics, and the ever - shifting meaning of home. (vanityfair.com)
I have to smile, I guess my babies never read the textbook, both of them nursed every 2 hours 24 hours a day for years:) They also never slept a good 6 to 8 hour stretch for at least 10 years, thank goodness for teenagehood and longer sleeps, of course I am older now and the one doing all the night waking. (milkontap.com)