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  • Family Reading Time: As Helpful Today as it was in Times Past

    Family Reading Time: As Helpful Today as it was in Times Past0

    • August 12, 2015

    In case you ever wanted more evidence that reading is beneficial for children, a new study published in the Pediatrics medical journal will fit the bill. Led by Dr. John Hutton, a research team from Ohio “used functional MRI scans to measure real-time brain activity in 19 children, aged 3 to 5 years, as they

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  • Family Reading Lists for Toddlers to Teens

    Family Reading Lists for Toddlers to Teens0

    Parent-child reading times – even into the teen years – are one of the best ways to turn your child into a well-rounded and educated reader, at least according to early twentieth century author Walter Taylor Field. To encourage parents to read with their children, Field includes a number of age-appropriate suggestions in his book

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  • Family Members Are Supposed to be a Burden on Each Other

    Family Members Are Supposed to be a Burden on Each Other1

    If you’re family, you burden each other. And that’s a good thing, once one understands what it means. This past weekend, First Things posted on Facebook an article they had originally published in 1991 entitled “I Want to Burden My Loved Ones.” That sounds awful, to be sure. But it was written by one of

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  • Family Matters: The Effects of Our Closed Colleges

    Family Matters: The Effects of Our Closed Colleges0

    Thanksgiving is coming, and with it, the arrival of young people returning from college. But they’re not alone. With them come new ideologies making freshman Becky regard Dad, a banker, as a tool of capitalism, while freshman Brad regards his stay-at-home mother as a willing slave of gender oppression. I’ve often heard parents, both liberal

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  • Family Farms and Faith: Lessons From Irish Culture

    Family Farms and Faith: Lessons From Irish Culture2

    I recently visited Ireland, and amidst the rugged moors covered in gorse bushes and the patchworked sheep fields divided by hedges, family farms once dotted the landscape as a cornerstone of the country. Ireland was, at one point, a country rooted in its traditions—from these farms to a strong Catholic faith. In turn, the role

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  • Family Brawl in the House of Trump

    Family Brawl in the House of Trump1

    A week from today, Joe Biden will still be on his inexorable course to become the 46th president of the United States. Why, then, the hysteria that has suddenly gripped this city? The triggering event was the announcement by GOP Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri. Despite Leader Mitch McConnell’s plea, Hawley said he intended to challenge

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