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A grandma wrote to say she’d seen her daughter cutting up her granddaughters’ meat at dinner—and the kids are in middle and high school. Their mom also chooses their clothes. The kids get straight A’s, but the grandma worries that they are being coddled into becoming imbeciles. My response: Grannie—I am sorry to say that
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A Tale of Two Uvalde Fathers4
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The sickening massacre of 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas has rightly horrified our nation. Some politicians and commentators are once again calling for stricter gun controls. Others fault the abject failings of America’s mental health care system. A few—perhaps the wisest among us—contend that the collapse of morality
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The Babylon Bee isn’t one of my regularly visited websites, but I landed on its front page the other morning and started scrolling through headlines. Pretty soon a snicker escaped my lips, then a giggle, and then several bursts of downright hearty laughter, which a co-worker was soon sharing after I read him a choice
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The Parental Quandary of Letting Go5
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- May 31, 2022
She was my firstborn, the privileged one who received the slavish affections of a delirious father instantly smitten by the new, fragile, squirming, little creature. Her birth unleased a whole new range of emotions and sensations: drooling euphoria, unhinged rapture, besotted reverence, incoherent adulation. There were the feedings and diaper changes and other more tedious
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The tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, has shifted dramatically in the last few days from the horror of young lives needlessly snuffed out by a gunman, to the horror of why more wasn’t done to save them. Finger-pointing and blaming abound, particularly toward the police who responded to the shooting. Video footage and firsthand accounts have
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