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Just Because a Kid is ‘Hard’ Doesn’t Mean He’s not ‘Normal’0
- Family
- March 15, 2016
In a recent blog for the New York Times, pediatrician Perri Klass reminds us that in the full range of normal, healthy child development, some kids are just plain more difficult than others. It seems like she is stating the obvious, but is this a reminder that our society desperately needs? While we live in
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Should More Children Be Introduced to Gardening?0
- Culture
- March 15, 2016
Some close friends of mine regularly invite children from an inner-city program to their hobby farm. The kids always have a blast doing all the things that farm kids do: chasing chickens, running by the garden, through the orchard, and so on. After one of these outings, my friends were driving the children back to
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Chicago Low-Income Housing Voucher: $4,000/mo.0
- Culture
- March 15, 2016
Whatever one’s opinion on government helping low-income or no-income individuals have roofs over their heads, it’s probably safe to say that most people would be outraged by a government program that gives some people nearly $4,000/mo. for housing while others get less than $1,000/mo. Too extreme to believe? Here’s what Chicago’s Sun Times is reporting:
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Exclusive, Racist, Judgmental, and Dull: Cities are the New Suburbs 0
- Culture
- March 15, 2016
The taxes are too high. The people indulge in groupthink. There seems to be a system in place to prevent free thought, free action, and free movement. Everyone is more preoccupied with fitness than having a good time. Racism is a problem. When did America’s cities become like 1950s suburbs? I recently moved out of
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The West’s War on Children 0
- Culture
- March 15, 2016
The world has now seen several decades of something quite new: explicitly anti-child policies. By this one might think I am referring to the “one-child” policy in China. And to a certain extent I am. Fines and the withholding of education and other services, not to mention forced abortions, rather comfortably fit within any definition
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Why Children Should be Encouraged to Build Things 0
- Culture
- March 15, 2016
Several years ago, a little boy I know set out to make and enter a project in the state fair. He gathered his supplies, came up with a design, and forged a hand-crafted knife – blade and all. While his creation was quite impressive, the state fair was not amused and refused to let him
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