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  • C.S. Lewis’ Uncanny Foresight on the Decline of Education

    C.S. Lewis’ Uncanny Foresight on the Decline of Education2

    In the past few years, various reports have surfaced regarding the gifted and talented students being left behind in our school systems. First there was the report that parents were taking their children out of the Minneapolis education system and personally driving them to other school districts. The reason? The Minneapolis district was focusing on

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  • 10 Ways to Avoid Picky Eater Syndrome

    10 Ways to Avoid Picky Eater Syndrome0

    For many parents, the most traumatic family battles are fought at the very place which should be a place of harmony and connection: the dinner table. The bad news is that those dinnertime battles are often the result of food habits that parents have unconsciously established. The good news, however, is that those habits can

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  • 10 Habits That Might Be Killing Your Child’s Interest in Reading

    10 Habits That Might Be Killing Your Child’s Interest in Reading0

    The Nation’s 2015 reading scores carry a serious message to parents: American students aren’t reading. It’s easy to pass the blame for this off on the schools, and in all likelihood, the education system is contributing to the general decline in reading. But do American parents also share part of the blame? I asked myself

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  • U.S. Schools Using Greek and Latin to Boost Reading Skills

    U.S. Schools Using Greek and Latin to Boost Reading Skills0

    When The Nation’s Report Card released the 2015 reading scores for high schoolers, the public got confirmation of what it has long feared: student achievement has been gradually declining in recent decades.   But is it possible that those scores could be improved by reintroducing Greek and Latin into school curriculum?   According to a recent article

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  • Should Children Have Rights?

    Should Children Have Rights?0

    In recent years, many parents seem to have answered the title question with a resounding, “Yes!” Because of this, many have raised their children in an environment in which it’s unclear precisely who’s the boss.   As Leonard Sax has noted, this is one reason many children today seem out of control and are increasingly placed

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  • How Parents Are Slowly Ceding Authority to Children

    How Parents Are Slowly Ceding Authority to Children1

    Last weekend, our five-year-old daughter yelled at an adult friend of ours. When I found out about it later that day, I made my daughter call and apologize for yelling. It was very hard for her to do (oh, the waterworks!). She has a strong personality and doesn’t like to say sorry—at all. But I

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  • Do Christians Focus On Sexual Sin Too Much?

    Do Christians Focus On Sexual Sin Too Much?2

    • April 28, 2016

    The idea of sexual sin is deeply rooted in the Bible and Christian theology. I think few argue that adultery and fornication are, shall we say, strongly frowned upon in Scripture. We hear about it a lot, in churches, media, and daily conversations.   One could argue that a casual non-Christian observer could even be

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  • Black Students Fake Hate

    Black Students Fake Hate0

    Authorities have identified the culprits behind a racist drawing found on a whiteboard at Salisbury University in Maryland. Via USA Today: The image, found April 10 on a whiteboard in Blackwell Library, showed a stick figure being hung and labeled with a racial slur. Underneath was the hashtag “#whitepower.” The university confirmed Tuesday, April 26,

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  • 5 Powerful Signs You’re a Mature Soul

    5 Powerful Signs You’re a Mature Soul0

    What does it mean that the soul is mature? If, during your spiritual journey, you ask yourself the question: “What do I expect from life?” and you give an honest answer, the quality of that answer contains the response the question of the soul’s maturity. Signs of a mature soul: The mature soul is beyond its desires and

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