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  • Saddling Up and Riding with Justice and Truth

    Saddling Up and Riding with Justice and Truth0

    A French correspondent, fluent in English and a brave anti-vaxxer, recently wrote to me, “So it’s 2022. Some are saying it will be 20-20-Too.”            Heaven forbid that is the case.            As we all know, the last two years have brought many trials and challenges. Americans

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  • It’s 2022, But Many Schools Are Reverting to 2020’s COVID Playbook

    It’s 2022, But Many Schools Are Reverting to 2020’s COVID Playbook0

    It’s 2022 but you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s still 2020—especially if you have children enrolled in K-12 district schooling. Some parents are grappling this week with a return to, or threat of, remote learning first introduced nearly two years ago. Fear of the fast-spreading Omicron variant of the coronavirus is leading school officials across

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  • The Wackiest Parenting Stories of 2021

    The Wackiest Parenting Stories of 20210

    In a crazy year, some stories were crazier than others when it came to kids, parents, worrywarts, scolds—and everything besides COVID-19, which we give a blessed rest in this list! No. 1: WHY CAN’T YOU BE GOOD LIKE ME? A Beaverton, Oregon, man screamed at a lady for leaving her kid in the car while

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  • Omicron Is Turning Into Om-i-con

    Omicron Is Turning Into Om-i-con0

    Like many of you, I’ve read numerous articles in the last two years about COVID-19, masks and lockdowns, deaths, vaccines, and mandates. Now the Omicron variation of COVID-19 is inundating the news. There are calls for millions of new virus tests, and in some quarters demands for more lockdowns, more masking requirements, and the cancellation

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  • Whatever Happened to the Boy Scouts?

    Whatever Happened to the Boy Scouts?2

    It was once an honor to earn a merit badge in the Boy Scouts. Becoming a Star Scout was a privilege, a Life Scout was something fantastic, and an Eagle Scout was the very tip of the apex. Few achieved that pinnacle, and those who did treasured it for their entire lives. But even those

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  • What Kids Learn When They’re ‘Just’ Playing

    What Kids Learn When They’re ‘Just’ Playing1

    We’re heading into two weeks (or possibly … two months? two years?) of the kids at home. It’s called Christmas break, as if it’s a break from learning. But that’s just our Puritan Work Ethic talking—the idea that if something is fun, it is a pause from our real job, which is to always be hard

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