On Seeing, A Journal. #353
The Growing Up Years of Padraic Evanhouse-Reily
April 7, 2020

7 years and 25 years

I am interested in everything about human development, fascinated by maturation, growth, emotional, educational and physical development.

I have studied over 200 children from childhood into their 20’s some starting when they were newborns, as in this case with Padraic, and others when they were about six or seven, making annual studio portraits and asking them, once they learned to read and write, to write answers to a series of questions, a kind of diary about their lives, their feelings, their hopes, their regrets.

This exploration has been a major 30 year odyssey, an adventure that has yielded riches beyond my initial imagining.

Padraic Evenhouse-Reily started here:
His mom, a Professor of Economics, Mills College

5 Days old, held by Dad

1 year old

7 years old

9 years old

10 years old

12 years old

13 years old

14 years old

15 years old

17 years old

18 years old

25 years old

Growing:
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Padraic at 25 yrs and mom

Permission was signed by the parents of each and every child every year, and by the participants themselves once they turned 18. In addition, we have now sent copies of all of their writings and edited photographs to the participants for whom I have finished all my editing and have received full permission from that group to publish and post.
I am certain that every reader will make unique discoveries and original observations that growing up creates.
I’d love to hear what you “see.”