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  • Teaching Children to Embrace the Difficult Delights of Life

    Teaching Children to Embrace the Difficult Delights of Life23

    I browsed the shelves for as long as my mother would allow when I visited the library as a child. When her patience – or our available time – finally petered out, I brought seven or eight books up to the library counter to check out – a healthy mix of historical fiction, fantasy, mystery,

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  • Teaching Children To Be Unbiased Is Impossible

    Teaching Children To Be Unbiased Is Impossible0

    A comic from NPR caught my eye the other day. Promising to tell parents “how to raise informed, active citizens,” the scrawled images and text stressed the importance of civics and made several recommendations on how parents can work instruction of this topic into everyday life. The suggestions range from using fun and games, to

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  • Teaching Children Manners: Is It Still Worth the Effort?

    Teaching Children Manners: Is It Still Worth the Effort?0

    Teaching kids manners can be a grueling process, which is perhaps why many parents today give up on it. Mother Barbara Spindel, writing for the Washington Post, is one of those parents. Despite believing that manners are important, she has grown more tolerant of her 9-year-old boy’s lack of them. Among his issues: he “eats

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  • Teaching Children ‘No’ in the Era of #MeToo

    Teaching Children ‘No’ in the Era of #MeToo0

    Children aren’t born knowing what no means. You have to teach them. But how? For starters, you have to know what it means yourself. Most people seem to think no means something such as: “I say no and the other person will obey me because they will realize the sacredness of my person.” While that

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  • Teaching Chess to Kids Spurs Academic Achievement

    Teaching Chess to Kids Spurs Academic Achievement0

    Over the weekend, 60 Minutes featured an unusual story about the small, backwoods area of Franklin County, Mississippi. Like much of Mississippi, Franklin County isn’t exactly known for its wealth or educational excellence. But that may be changing, particularly in regards to the latter, thanks to a man known as Dr. Jeff Bulington. According to

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  • Teaching About Riots and Democracy

    Teaching About Riots and Democracy0

    [The setting: a classroom on a liberal arts campus somewhere in the American northeast. A young, very enlightened professor addresses students in her course “Getting Woke, Bashing the Fash: Intro to Critical Studies” following a screening of the 13-minute video of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot shown at the opening of the latest impeachment trial

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