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Why Millennials Are Having So Much Trouble ‘Adulting’0
- Culture
- November 22, 2017
Not long ago it was announced that “The Adulting School” was open for business. Its mission was to teach young millennials to do the basic tasks of life, such as cooking and time management, which they had somehow failed to acquire in their childhood years. But while the “The Adulting School” received a great deal
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What to Do On Thanksgiving 0
- Culture
- November 22, 2017
For a variety of reasons, modern America is both incredibly blessed and yet utterly frantic. We’ve lost something along the way to our material prosperity. I do believe what we face now is spiritual poverty. In contrast to Christmas, Thanksgiving is a time largely free of consumerism. While some of the Big Box retailers attempt
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Back in My Day, Young’un…0
- November 22, 2017
As the saying goes, kids these days never had it so good. Monty Python made a great sketch based on this idea: old men complaining about the young people of today and competing as to who had the most uncomfortable upbringing. To paraphrase, “back in my day I had to walk to school and back,
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Can Homeschooling Break the ‘Glass Ceiling’?0
- Culture
- November 22, 2017
The BBC recently held the “100 Women Challenge,” which highlighted various females and their success in breaking the glass ceiling. One of these women is Camille Eddy, a 23-year-old STEM major who is now interning in Silicon Valley as a mechanical engineer. Camille realizes that her position as a female in the typically male
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Meet the Woman Who Helped Make Thanksgiving a US Holiday 0
- Culture
- November 22, 2017
For much of the 19th century, Thanksgiving was only celebrated by New Englanders and Northeastern transplants in the upper Midwest and New York. Without the dogged activism of Sarah Josepha Hale—a novelist, poet, and the editor of “Godey’s Lady’s Book,” a lifestyle magazine with an impressive pre-Civil War circulation of 150,000—Thanksgiving may never have become
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What Jeff Bezos Gets Right About Parenting 0
- Culture
- November 22, 2017
Jeff Bezos was recently interviewed by his younger brother, Mark, at the Summit ideas conference in Los Angeles. The nearly hour-long discussion included a loving portrait of their childhood as well as the Amazon founder’s theories on childrearing. For those of us who believe in the importance of greater independence for our children and have
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