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  • The Wackiest Parenting Stories of 2021

    The Wackiest Parenting Stories of 20210

    In a crazy year, some stories were crazier than others when it came to kids, parents, worrywarts, scolds—and everything besides COVID-19, which we give a blessed rest in this list! No. 1: WHY CAN’T YOU BE GOOD LIKE ME? A Beaverton, Oregon, man screamed at a lady for leaving her kid in the car while

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  • The Virtues of Learning to Sew

    The Virtues of Learning to Sew0

    I find myself feeling nostalgic these days. My kids are growing up in a different world than the one I knew at their age. My childhood encompassed a time before personal computers, cell phones, and the internet. We had five channels on the television—my family lived so far out of town that we didn’t have

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  • The Virtues of Boredom in an Anxious Age

    The Virtues of Boredom in an Anxious Age0

    Today’s parents are fixated on setting their children on strategic paths to “success”— cramming their days with lessons, sports, clubs, camps, and so on. The goal: to enrich their kids’ lives with new knowledge and experiences. Or, more commonly, “to keep them busy.” We do the same for ourselves, of course, stocking our calendars with

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  • The Virtues of Book Ownership

    The Virtues of Book Ownership0

    “Can you spare a dollar so I can buy this book?” I heard a man’s deep voice ask this question as I raced up a flight of stairs, speeding my way to the second floor of the local public library to drop off some overdue books. His voice was coming from the library’s “sale room”

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  • The Virtue We Don’t Talk About Enough

    The Virtue We Don’t Talk About Enough1

    When most people think of character, there is a list of attributes or “traits” that comes readily to mind. Some of the more common ones might be honesty, responsibility, patience, perseverance, loyalty, and courage. These are lofty attributes indeed, and it’s a shame that they seem to get little more than lip service from many

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  • The Violence in Charlottesville

    The Violence in Charlottesville0

    The vast majority of people in the United States have no interest whatsoever in street battles between the alt-right (better described today in more poignant terms) and the counter-protesters. Most people have normal problems like paying bills, dealing with kids, getting health care, keeping life together under all the usual strains, and mostly want these

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