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Making Meaning Is the Antidote to Troubled Feelings 1
- Culture, Featured
- April 12, 2024
A contemporary writer on Stoicism, Ryan Holiday, recently observed: Professional writers quickly learn one reality of the job: you have more bad days than good days. It’s the rare day that the writer finds that the words come out exactly the way they were in their head. More often, one is disappointed, distracted, struggling, committed
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Education Eclipsed: Unnecessary School Closures Breed Anxious Children 1
- Education, Family, MomThink
- April 12, 2024
A total eclipse crossed the country this week in a display of natural wonder. Rather than seize the opportunity for an engaging science lesson, hundreds of school districts with several hundred thousand students decided to close for the day, many citing safety concerns that students might accidentally look at the eclipse without proper eye protection. Even worse
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Friday Comic: Cuddlefish Cosmos 0
- Entertainment
- April 12, 2024
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Can Female Liberation Be Found in Marriage?4
- Culture, Family, Featured
- April 11, 2024
What does a fulfilling, self-focused life look like, according to liberated feminism? Spa nights alone in a fancy apartment, perhaps. A boss babe CEO who enjoys hooking up on the weekends. Plastic surgery and perhaps a cute pet to post on Instagram. But what else is part and parcel of this life? An epidemic of
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The Virtue We Don’t Talk About Enough 1
- Culture
- April 11, 2024
When most people think of character, there is a list of attributes or “traits” that comes readily to mind. Some of the more common ones might be honesty, responsibility, patience, perseverance, loyalty, and courage. These are lofty attributes indeed, and it’s a shame that they seem to get little more than lip service from many
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Making a Case for Cursive 2
- Education, Featured, MomThink
- April 10, 2024
Recently, I asked my fifth graders if they enjoyed writing in cursive. Students at the all-boys Catholic school where I work start training in cursive penmanship in third grade, so my students had been practicing it for the better part of three years. I expected them to say that it is boring, that they do
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