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The Cultural Rebellion of Parenting18
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- April 23, 2025
Making it through the teen years without a massive rebellion of children against parents would seem to many like a parenting success, one that not many dads and moms have the pleasure of achieving. But while many parents want to avoid teenage rebellion at all costs, what they may fail to realize is that parenting
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Ballerina Farm, Homesteading, and the Revival of the Family Economy24
“Do you work or do you just stay home?” Many mothers have answered this loaded question. It presents, of course, a false dilemma, but one that exemplifies the way our culture thinks about the home and work itself. As summer approaches, my husband and I are spending most of our Saturdays outdoors doing hard manual
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Trump’s Easter Message Shows That God Works in Mysterious Ways27
- Culture, Featured, Religion, Uncategorized
- April 21, 2025
Love him or loathe him, Americans would agree that President Donald Trump delivers bombshell policies and critiques like no one else, yet on April 13th he sent a message to the American people that left me speechless when my daughter first read it to me. In his “Presidential Message on Holy Week, 2025,” Trump opens
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Showing Up: The Quiet Strength That Shapes Who We Become50
- Culture, Featured, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- April 18, 2025
Of all the lessons I learned growing up, the one that made the biggest impression was the commitment to show up every day. On the farm, taking care of cattle and hogs never stopped. Dad had to do the chores, whether it was 100 degrees or a windchill of -40, whether he was sick, sore,
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Why Is Christianity Increasingly Attractive to Men?14
- Culture, Featured, Religion, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- April 17, 2025
Holy Week is upon us once again, the week which starts with little children hitting one another with the palm branches they received at church and culminates eight days later as those same angels sit “in their Easter bonnet(s) with all the frills upon it.” For many Americans, Holy Week is no more than these
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How Trump’s Tariffs Could Enrich Your Home17
- Culture, Economics, Family, Featured, MomThink, Politics, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- April 16, 2025
Some of the first effects American consumers will feel from Trump’s tariffs will be in how much harder it will be to purchase the fast, cheap goods that Americans are used to procuring with the click of a button. This particular consequence of added duties on imported goods may be one which has a silver
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For Teens, Knowing the Past Helps Them Face the Challenges of the Future9
- Education, Featured, History, Uncategorized
- April 15, 2025
Last week I posted an article about the pressing need to teach American history to our young. A follow-up piece focused on ways and resources for sharing the story of our country with elementary-aged students in the home and classroom. We’ll now conclude with an all-too-quick look at some tools that connect teens with their country’s past. Having a
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Normalize Making Career Sacrifices to Raise Your Babies22
- Family, Featured, MomThink, Politics, Uncategorized
- April 14, 2025
There’s an entire generation of women who have been sold a specific lie. Sixty years after the second wave feminism of women like Gloria Steinem, the idea that women must have a career that looks just like a man’s in order to not squander their brains and talents still exists. The daughters of the women
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Passing the Torch of American History to Our Children42
- Education, Family, Featured, History, Uncategorized
- April 11, 2025
Having promised in my previous article to provide means and resources for sharing our American past with our elementary school-aged children, let’s jump right into that home-grown classroom. We’ll look at resources first, then ways to bring the people and events of our nation’s past alive for kids. The Best of Times Never have parents
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