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  • The Berenstain Bears and Traditional Parenting

    The Berenstain Bears and Traditional Parenting2

    I consider myself a scholarly expert on the Berenstain Bears. Not because I’ve actually written any scholarly works on the series of books by Stan and Jan Berenstain, but just because I’m an academic and I have read and reread dozens of Berenstain books for more than a decade with first one daughter and now

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  • The Benevolent Sexist in a Mannerly Man

    The Benevolent Sexist in a Mannerly Man4

    Little boys are sexist. At least, that’s what recent headlines want us to believe. A new study hit newsstands the other day, claiming that young children, boys especially, exhibit indicators of sexism even into early middle school. This sexism, however, is not likely to be aggressive, mean-spirited behavior toward females. In fact, it could be

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  • The Benefits of Plunging Public Kindergarten Enrollment Rates

    The Benefits of Plunging Public Kindergarten Enrollment Rates0

    Public school enrollment has consistently declined across most states this academic year, and there are new signs that the trend will continue this fall. On Thursday, New York City’s education department reported that kindergarten applications for the 2021/2022 school year dropped 12 percent, from 63,000 to under 55,500 applications. Overall New York City kindergarten enrollment

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  • The Benefits of Delayed Schooling

    The Benefits of Delayed Schooling0

    If you are one of those parents who decided to delay your child’s schooling, or forgo it altogether, you have plenty of company.  According to Education Week, in the years 2008-2010 fewer than half of U.S. children under age five attended preschool, and the number of stay-at-home-parents has been rising over the past decade. Additionally, there are more

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  • The Benefits of Being an Only Child

    The Benefits of Being an Only Child0

    According to the (Australian) ABC, there is a lot of prejudice, negativity and downright rudeness directed towards parents of a single child.  Apparently such parents get asked things like: are you going to give your child a brother or a sister? Aren’t they lonely? What happens if they die and you are left with no

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  • The Benefits and Best Practices of Religious Parenting

    The Benefits and Best Practices of Religious Parenting1

    Surveying the growing body of social science research helps bring greater clarity to the complex, and largely beneficial, interactions between religion and family life. The research also suggests evidence-based best practices for effectively integrating faith and family life, including religious-spiritual authenticity, nurturing parent-child relationships, balancing religious firmness and flexibility, and encouraging youth to have spiritual

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