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  • The ‘Parenting Coach’ Industry Has Exploded in the Last 20 Years. Here’s Why.

    The ‘Parenting Coach’ Industry Has Exploded in the Last 20 Years. Here’s Why.0

    Ever seen an episode of Supernanny? For those unfamiliar with the British TV program, Jo Frost is the supernanny who comes into a chaotic home, evaluates the situation, and then teaches parents how they can restore peace and raise their children in a proper way. The clip below provides a good example: But Supernanny isn’t

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  • The ‘Mostly Peaceful’ Double Standard

    The ‘Mostly Peaceful’ Double Standard0

    Though the actions of President Donald Trump’s most foolish supporters at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday were disgraceful, I can’t help but compare the news coverage of this event with the coverage of the Black Lives Matter/Antifa protesters in cities across the country last year. In my home state of Ohio, those protesting the death

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  • The ‘Look It Up’ Fallacy

    The ‘Look It Up’ Fallacy0

    Modern educators are no longer teaching much in the way of content knowledge. Their excuse why is that we no longer need to because we now have technology. We have Google, and so students can just look things up. In his recent book, Why Knowledge Matters, E. D. Hirsch, Jr. calls this the “Look it

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  • The ‘Haunted’ Baby Craze in Thailand

    The ‘Haunted’ Baby Craze in Thailand0

    The internet is buzzing about the baby-boom underway in Bangkok—a plastic baby boom. That’s right, grown women are carrying around little dolls called luk thep (“little angels”). They apparently take them everywhere and treat them like an actual child complete with manicures at salons and meals at restaurants. Airlines have even set up guidelines to

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  • The ‘Feel Good’ Approach is Not Working for Churches

    The ‘Feel Good’ Approach is Not Working for Churches0

    Late last week, I ran across an intriguing article on the state of the Church of England in The Telegraph. According to the paper: “Churches with small and declining congregations may no longer have to hold weekly Sunday services as the Church of England considers dropping the legal requirement. A Church of England task group

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  • The ‘Useless’ Things Make Us More Fully Human

    The ‘Useless’ Things Make Us More Fully Human24

    Every morning I’m up before dawn, enjoying some coffee on my front porch, and thanking my Maker for another day – I’ve reached the age where that gratitude is heartfelt. Two or three times a day, I play a couple of games of solitaire. Often, I’ll read a few pages from some book I know

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