Family

The Odds of Your Kid Getting Kidnapped 2
- Family
- April 1, 2024
Kidnapping remains one of the top three fears of American parents despite its (thank God!) rarity. One way to fight that outsized fear is to consider the actual odds of your child being kidnapped by a stranger. To gain some perspective, I gathered a whole lot of stats. Note: It is hard to find stats
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What Ireland Can Teach the World About the Importance of Family 1
- Culture, Family, Featured, International, MomThink
- March 27, 2024
Earlier this month, Irish voters delivered a stunning ballot-box upset by voting down two anti-family measures that had been heavily promoted by the ruling center-right government and enjoyed widespread support in the media and among the chattering class. Conducted via a double referendum, the two proposals sought to alter Ireland’s constitution to diminish the value
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This New Book Reveals How to Escape Our Demographic Doomsday 2
- Family, Culture, MomThink
- March 19, 2024
Anyone who keeps up with demographics knows that birth rates in many countries around the world have now fallen below replacement levels. To maintain a population requires a minimum of 2.1 babies being born per female. But the birth rate in the European Union is today 1.53, in Japan 1.26, and in South Korea only
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‘The Anxious Generation’ Has the Worst of Both Worlds 0
- Education, Family, MomThink
- March 18, 2024
In a blockbuster Atlantic piece, “The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood,” my Let Grow co-founder Jonathan Haidt says our culture is getting it all wrong when it comes to kids: We “underprotect” them in the virtual world and overprotect them in the real one. That’s the worst of both worlds if we want to
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Feeling Unqualified to Homeschool? 8 Resources to Get Started 1
- Education, Family, Featured, MomThink
- March 15, 2024
If you’re feeling unqualified to homeschool, you’re not alone. The question of what and how to teach stressed me out early on in my homeschooling journey. I found that having a good curriculum did a great deal to reduce my fears of not being qualified to teach. I wanted to strike a balance between bookwork,
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Dealing with Teens and Spouses: Some Guidelines Compliments of the Federal Government 0
- Entertainment, Family, Featured, Politics
- March 11, 2024
By extracting some of the expressions buried in the blather employed by politicians and bureaucrats, America’s parents, husbands, and wives can find new and more effective ways to manage conversations with a teen or spouse. These gifts of gab should come as no surprise. After all, given the many failures of the federal government—the crisis
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