Family

‘Socialization’ Depends on Who’s Doing the Socializing 0
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured
- January 20, 2026
I was conversing with an 80-year-old neighbor recently who taught and coached for decades in public schools in New York City and here in Virginia. When I mentioned having taught seminars in literature, history, and Latin to homeschoolers, he instantly brought up socialization, a word I’ve heard linked to homeschoolers since my wife and I
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Pronatalism Without Morals Disintegrates in Real Time 0
- Culture, Family, Featured
- January 20, 2026
Elon Musk, a vocal champion of large families, is now in a custody battle with the most recent mother of his children. Musk is no stranger to such battles. He is estranged from his transgender-identified son who publicly calls him a “pathetic man-child.” He fought a years-long custody battle with one of his wives, the mother of
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Taking School to the Woods 0
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured
- January 15, 2026
English philosopher John Locke once advised that children should have “shoes so thin, that they might leak and let in water, whenever he comes near it.” Yikes! I thought when I first read that passage in “Some Thoughts Concerning Education” years ago. The mother’s heart of caution within me still balks at that idea … but
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Is There Any Such Thing as ‘Good Divorce’?1
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink
- January 11, 2026
If you ever want to get an interesting – sometimes shocking – glimpse of today’s culture, try reading the advice columns that populate many of the nation’s newspapers. A letter to Slate’s “Dear Prudence” column caught my eye today. The letter writer explained that a friend (“Chrissy”) in her late 30s was still dealing with the effects of her parents’ divorce, roughly
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The Joy of Being the “Default Parent”0
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink
- January 10, 2026
Author and mother Gina Bontempo noted on X recently that the online uproar over a woman being the “default parent” in her child’s life smacks of the lie that men and women can, and should, be treated as interchangeable. For those unfamiliar with internet lingo, the phenomenon in question is as old as mothers and
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An Impossible Life 0
- Culture, Family, Featured
- January 9, 2026
A newborn baby is about 25 billion times bigger at birth than it was at conception. That incredible growth occurs in just nine months. If an adult did that, his head would be among the moon and stars by the end. Nothing should grow that quickly, yet it happens with every baby. Every time. And,
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