Family

Fed up With Screens, Parents Are Demanding a Return To Pen and Paper in the Classroom 0
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured
- February 23, 2026
Not so very long ago, school districts and education leaders told us that technology in the classroom was essential to the success of our students. “An iPad on every desk” became the new “chicken in every pot” slogan, as experts tried to convince us that technology could be a panacea for the nation’s test scores.
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4 Tips for Families From Shackleton’s Voyage 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, History
- February 23, 2026
One of my sons gave me some belated Christmas gifts just as cold and snow clamped down on my little town. Among these was a copy of Alfred Lansing’s “Endurance,” a narrative account of explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew of 27 who fought for nearly two years to survive the gales, sub-zero temperatures, and
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Where Are All the Baby Showers for Law School Grads?0
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink
- February 20, 2026
Every Mother’s Day, several enterprising young thought-leaders try to include plant moms and dog moms in the celebration. Thankfully, they’re roundly ridiculed for comparing their pets to human children, or their caretaking experience to the challenges of motherhood. The selfishness of many (although certainly not all) deliberately childless women flares up at the sight of any symptom
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Americans Could Use a Good Stiff Shot of ‘Prude’ Juice 0
- Culture, Entertainment, Family, Featured
- February 17, 2026
Just recently, a 40-something friend confessed a fact about herself that blew me away: She hasn’t set foot inside a movie theater since she was three years old. In her childhood, the family budget precluded jaunts to the theater. The introduction of videos, DVDs, and streaming services one by one afforded her plenty of film
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What Happens When You’re an Intelligent Stay-at-Home Mom?0
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink
- February 13, 2026
The life of the “stay-at-home mom” is under constant scrutiny. Her personal choice to not take a full-time job outside the home, focusing her energies and talents on raising her children and keeping her house instead, seems antithetical to the world’s definition of success. As a result, the world provides all manner of explanations for
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True Education Starts With a Child’s Imagination 0
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured, MomThink, Philosophy, Western Civilization
- February 12, 2026
Much of a child’s education happens outside the classroom and begins long before he first sits down at a desk. Like a plant, a toddler draws nutrients from his surroundings, the “soil” of the home environment, almost as soon as he can recognize mom’s face. This soil forms the basis of the child’s future formalized
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