Family

When Your Child’s Doctor Is Working Against You 0
- Family
- December 19, 2023
Maya Kowalski was admitted to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in 2016. She was 10 and in extreme pain from a condition called complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS). Sally Smith, a “child abuse pediatrician” who worked at the hospital through a state contract with child protective services, insisted Maya’s condition was caused and exaggerated by
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If Your Kids Aren’t Happy at School, Find Them Another One 1
- Education, Family
- December 5, 2023
“I hated going to school when I was a kid,” said Elon Musk in a 2015 interview. “It was torture.” When deciding how his own children would be educated, Musk rejected traditional schooling and created his own project-based microschool, Ad Astra, in 2014, on his SpaceX campus. “The kids really love going to school,” said
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High School Football or Day Care?3
- Education, Family
- December 4, 2023
Football season is almost over, but for the past couple months, middle school students who attended high school games in several Oklahoma cities have had to sit with their parents at all times. At some schools, even if they go to the bathroom, they must be accompanied by an adult. The Oklahoma schools’ rules were
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Teaching Your Child to Read: The Gateway to All Learning 1
- Family, Education, Featured, Literature
- December 1, 2023
When my husband and I decided we were going to homeschool, we puzzled over what might be his contribution. Our division of labor as a married couple included me as a stay-at-home mom and him as the primary breadwinner. Nevertheless, we wanted to find a way for him to be involved in the educational aspects
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Why the Best Gift for Your Child Is a Brother or Sister 2
- Family, Culture
- November 28, 2023
Original thinkers are hard to come by. If you doubt that, visit a diploma mill. You’ll see right off that credentials don’t confer character, creativity or common sense. Academic hubris conflates knowledge with wisdom. Such folks are a dime a dozen. Sui generis Then there is Colin Brazier: sui generis, in a class by himself. Original
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A Call to Battle: Liz Wheeler’s ‘Hide Your Children’1
- Education, Family
- November 20, 2023
When my wife and I were raising and homeschooling our four children, we faced certain cultural dilemmas just like other parents we knew. Should we let our kids read the Harry Potter books? (Affirmative on that one.) What movies or television shows should we allow them to watch? What sort of friends were they making?
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