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  • 4 Ways to Navigate Toddler Meltdowns While Shopping

    4 Ways to Navigate Toddler Meltdowns While Shopping0

    What’s worse than being stuck in a long line at the supermarket? Being stuck in a long line at the supermarket while your child is having a meltdown. Every parent has been there, and it’s every parent’s worst nightmare. My kids are four and two – in other words, prime ages for throwing fits in

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  • 4 Ways to Make a Really Bad First Impression

    4 Ways to Make a Really Bad First Impression0

    There is a hilarious scene in the Oscar-winning film La La Land that shows the easiest way to make a terrible first impression. Emma Stone’s character Mia arrives at a pool party and is introduced to a man named Carlo. The conversation begins fine. Carlo repeats Mia’s name, demonstrating that he’s paying attention. He firmly

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  • 4 Ways to Get Beyond Superficial Conversation

    4 Ways to Get Beyond Superficial Conversation0

    Several weeks ago, Intellectual Takeout posted a piece about the exhausting nature of superficial conversation. According to this piece: “Human beings are those whose nature is to ask deeper questions, and we primarily do this through our relationships with others. When these relationships are dominated by superficial conversations, we are not acting according to our

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  • 4 Ways to Avoid Being Fooled By Propaganda

    4 Ways to Avoid Being Fooled By Propaganda0

    We live in a society where propaganda is hurled at us nearly every waking hour. One need only recall the last election to verify that such a statement is true.  Unfortunately, the vast majority of the public is ill-equipped to deal with this propaganda. This is because, as former University of Chicago professor Richard Weaver

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  • 4 Ways Parents Can Encourage Their Children to Read Good Books

    4 Ways Parents Can Encourage Their Children to Read Good Books0

    As a grade-school child, there was nothing I loved more than burying my nose in a book. Mysteries particularly. I pounded my way through various series, happily ignoring the fact that they all revolved around the same, mind-numbing plot and rarely broadened my knowledge or intellectual ability. Fortunately, my mother recognized this problem better than

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  • 4 Traditional Skills for Young Women

    4 Traditional Skills for Young Women4

    As a young woman in today’s world, I’ve seen how modern conveniences have chipped away at the skills so many used to pride themselves on. I greatly admire the men and women, particularly those among the younger generations, who have taken the time to learn the skills of their forefathers. Certainly, the pioneers didn’t have

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