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  • Raising Children to Be More Than Peppa Parrots

    Raising Children to Be More Than Peppa Parrots0

    Peppa Pig, a British children’s cartoon, has taken America by storm, so much so that children are absorbing the British accent its characters feature, a recent article in The Wall Street Journal explains. Parents are reporting that they’ve become “Mummy,” Santa has morphed into “Father Christmas” for whom children must make mince pies, and mature

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  • Keeping an Eye on Grandpa, the Terrorist

    Keeping an Eye on Grandpa, the Terrorist0

    I’ve just learned I may be a terrorist. On Aug. 13, the Secretary of Homeland Security issued a statement warning about an increase in domestic and foreign terrorism. At the end of the document’s summary were these words: “Such threats are also exacerbated by impacts of the ongoing global pandemic, including grievances over public health

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  • Surviving Suffering in a World of Pain

    Surviving Suffering in a World of Pain0

    Becoming Elisabeth Elliot, by Ellen Vaughn (B&H Books; 320 pp., $24.99). This is the official biography of the wife of famed missionary martyr Jim Elliot, who was killed along with four other missionaries while attempting to bring the Gospel to a group of savage natives in the South American jungle during the mid-1950s. Elliot was launched

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  • When Men Say ‘Yes’ to the Dress

    When Men Say ‘Yes’ to the Dress0

    Judging by the ads that show up on my computer, I am a prime target for women’s clothing stores. Advertisers clearly know they can catch my eye with feminine dresses and skirts.But such feminine dresses quickly become unappealing when worn by those recently featured in a New York Times article entitled “The Boys in Their

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  • Homeschooling Just Crossed the Tipping Point

    Homeschooling Just Crossed the Tipping Point3

    In the months before COVID hit, a number of my friends began a new phase of motherhood by starting careers as homeschool teachers. They expressed normal trepidation, concerned they would fail, and by extension, their children would. Then the pandemic hit, homeschooling became the new way of life, and my friends were suddenly homeschool veterans,

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  • Europe, A Nation of Old Men Up for Grabs

    Europe, A Nation of Old Men Up for Grabs1

    I have just completed a three-week tour of Europe starting from a home base in Switzerland to southern Germany, thence to the south of France, and finally to northern Italy. Each of these places is unique. Each is delightful in its own way, rich in culture and history, a pleasure to be in. The food

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