Culture

Being Present With Our Children 1
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink
- January 2, 2025
Being present and engaged with our children in everyday life is difficult. Our attention is being pulled in a thousand directions! Especially in the modern digital age, parents face more distractions and more demands on our limited time than ever before. It’s enough for parents to feel like throwing up our hands and giving up.
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The Problem Is the Banana on the Wall 7
- Culture, Featured
- December 30, 2024
Everyone has an explanation for the turn of events in November. It’s the economy, the culture, a failure to connect with working-class Americans. All these are valid reasons. However, I have my own explanation that sheds some light on what has gone wrong in America. It explains something of the craziness of our times. I
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Betting on Homeschooling and Microschooling 3
- Culture, Education, Featured, MomThink
- December 27, 2024
I have spent the past thirty-five years creating small, highly-personalized schools where students flourish. I have, if you will, bet my life on the value of these schools—microschools before they became a thing. Over the course of that time, I’ve seen hundreds of children who were anxious, depressed—sometimes even suicidal—become happy and well within weeks
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4 New Year’s Resolutions to Help Revive the West 1
- Culture, Featured, MomThink, Western Civilization
- December 26, 2024
As I look back on 2024, I see many green shoots giving me hope for Western Civilization. The United States Supreme Court appears poised to uphold a ban on the castration and mutilation of minors. European nations have begun counting the cost of unchecked immigration and are recovering their sense of national identity, security, and
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It’s All About the Baby 1
- Culture, Featured, MomThink, Religion
- December 23, 2024
I have a confession to make: We barely decorated for Christmas this year. The extent of our festive furnishings is a humble 15-inch plastic tree in the middle of our kitchen table. How did it come to this? Let me start by saying I love Christmas, and I generally approach the season with an all-in
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Why You Should Talk to People You Disagree With About Politics 9
- Culture, Featured, MomThink, Politics
- December 19, 2024
If you talked to friends or family about politics over Thanksgiving, you might not have changed each other’s minds. But don’t be discouraged – and consider talking with them again as the holiday season continues. As a scholar of political dialogue, for the past decade I have been studying conversations between people who disagree about politics. What
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