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  • American Prayer in the Midst of Crises

    American Prayer in the Midst of Crises0

    Several weeks ago, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo gave a press conference on – what else? – the coronavirus. The press conference was, like many these days, a discussion of numbers and the problems of reopening the economy, but one statement was a bit startling. Discussing the hopeful sign of plateauing numbers, Cuomo expressed caution

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  • American Parents Spend 6 Hours Per Week on Their Kids’ Homework

    American Parents Spend 6 Hours Per Week on Their Kids’ Homework0

    Given the danger of violence in school these days, it’s not surprising that concerned parents would air their worries during water cooler chit-chat throughout the work day. Such was the recent case for a relative of mine. As she relayed to me, one of her co-workers noted that homeschooling seems to be the safest education

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  • American Parents ‘Are Afraid of Their Own Kids,’ Physician Says

    American Parents ‘Are Afraid of Their Own Kids,’ Physician Says0

    Family physician and author Dr. Leonard Sax has made a name for himself by seeking to restore common sense to today’s crazy world of child-rearing. He continues this quest toward restored sanity in a recent interview with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. As Dr. Sax explains, there is a great difference between parents

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  • American Neverland: An Epidemic of Infantilism

    American Neverland: An Epidemic of Infantilism0

    In 2015, Canadian singer Ruth B. released a song “Lost Boy” to widespread acclaim. The stanza below is repeated twice in the song: I am a lost boy from Neverland Usually hanging out with Peter Pan And when we’re bored we play in the woods Always on the run from Captain Hook ‘Run, run, lost

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  • American Made: What Sort of Worker Are You?

    American Made: What Sort of Worker Are You?36

    For Christmas this year, my daughter gave me an unusual gift. She hired a service to deep clean my house for four hours. At 9:15 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 17, a small car pulled into my driveway. Two men and a woman got out and removed buckets and supplies from the trunk, and we introduced

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  • American Lab Rats

    American Lab Rats0

    In January 1790, President George Washington wrote to London author Catherine Macaulay, “The establishment of our new government seemed to be the last great experiment, for promoting human happiness, by creating a reasonable compact, in civil Society.” Since then, any number of writers have referred to the American experiment—often in terms of politics, as Washington

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