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  • Are We Discouraging Parenting?

    Are We Discouraging Parenting?0

    • September 18, 2015

    Do you know children who are being raised by their grandparents – or were you even one yourself? According to Time, roughly 2.7 million U.S. grandparents are raising their grandchildren, a number that has risen in the last 20 years. What’s driving the increase in custodial grandparents? “Addiction and incarceration rates, child abuse and neglect,

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  • Are We Discouraging Mothers from Their Most Important Work?

    Are We Discouraging Mothers from Their Most Important Work?0

    Late last year, Pew Research came out with a report on the state of two-income families. One of the most striking observations was the fact that a high percentage of full-time working mothers say they feel rushed and believe they are not spending adequate time with their children. Ninety percent of full-time working mothers say

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  • Are We Destroying Creativity by Overmedicating Kids?

    Are We Destroying Creativity by Overmedicating Kids?0

    In recent years, ADHD diagnoses for American children have risen rapidly, particularly for boys. In fact, in the eight-year time span between 2003 and 2011, the percentage of male ADHD diagnoses increased from 11 to 15 percent. But is ADHD always a bad thing? Author and entrepreneur Peter Shankman suggests it’s not. Having been diagnosed

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  • Are we creating Men without Chests?

    Are we creating Men without Chests?0

    Much can be said and has been said about modern education. The catchphrase that seems to capture it best is ‘college and career ready’. But what does that even mean? What does it mean to be prepared? As we watch college students now requiring safe spaces and therapy due to partiers wearing sombreros or a

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  • Are We Boring Students to Death?

    Are We Boring Students to Death?0

    I had an interesting conversation with a 12-year-old young man the other day. When I asked him about school, he explained how he never learned anything and had decided that it wasn’t worth it to even try anymore. Instead, he was becoming one of the “bad kids” and making life miserable for his teachers. But

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  • Are We Blindly Accepting Preschool without Evidence?

    Are We Blindly Accepting Preschool without Evidence?1

    Last fall we shared a new bit of preschool research conducted by the Peabody Research Institute at Vanderbilt University. The research found that Tennessee’s state-funded Voluntary Prekindergarten program made little difference in giving children a head start in learning. In fact, the time in preschool actually seemed to make children fall behind their peers who

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