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Does Family Bonding Reduce ADHD?0
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- September 7, 2018
It’s hard to deny that cases of ADHD have exploded in recent years. This is particularly true for boys, whose ADHD diagnoses, as the chart below shows, increased from 11 percent to 15.1 percent between 2003 and 2015. It’s easy to look at this increase and blame any number of things. Smartphones. Video games. Lack
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The 3 Ways One Pioneer Mother Taught Her Children to Love Reading0
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- September 6, 2018
In a recent conversation, a friend of mine shared how one of her children had been diagnosed with dyslexia. They were working to overcome the difficulty, but the obstacle was still troubling to her as a mother. “After all,” she mourned, “children learn so much more if they’re able to read. They miss so much
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A Backward View: Older Books and the Culture of the Now0
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- September 5, 2018
For almost twenty years, I have written book reviews for a weekly newspaper in Western North Carolina. In general, reviewers take an interest only in new books. This makes some sense, as older books have already received their accolades or their slings and arrows. A few critics—Nick Hornby in his collection of reviews Ten Years
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If Middle Eastern Nations Are Stabilizing, Then Why Do the Refugees Keep Coming?0
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- September 5, 2018
Over the past five years, a quiet humanitarian crisis has been erupting in South America. Beginning in 2009, but especially since 2015, almost four million people, or one in 10, have left Venezuela. Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro’s regime are behind this steady and sure collapse of the Venezuelan economy and society. Yet as criticism
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The In-N-Out Burger Boycott Shows that Under Socialism, Those Who Don’t Obey Won’t Eat0
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- September 5, 2018
Last week, Eric Bauman, the chair of the California Democratic Party, called for a boycott of the popular California hamburger chain In-N-Out Burger. What was In-N-Out Burger’s crime? Los Angeles Magazine reported that the burger chain had contributed to the Republican Party. Bauman tweeted a link to the story about the contribution and called the
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Mayor Suggests Fine-Free Libraries So ‘Everyone Can Afford to Check Out a Book’0
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- September 4, 2018
Early this spring I experienced something that has probably only happened to me once before: I had an overdue library book. Given that I was the girl in college who felt frantically behind on her homework if she wasn’t a week ahead in her assignments, this was a bit distressing. But, I gritted my teeth
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