Family

Books, Boys, and Heroes 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, Literature
- October 15, 2026
My previous article, “Stories About Real Heroes Can Help Make Heroic Boys,” drew readers’ attention to the good that comes through exposing boys to literature and history featuring flesh-and-blood heroes. Superheroes have a place in the imagination of the young, but sooner or later, boys realize that the only superpowers in real life are those
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A Princeton Classicist Offers 5 Ways to Turn Children Into Book Lovers 0
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured, Literature
- October 12, 2026
I was finally heading toward the exit after several hours in the library when I spied a cart with a bunch of books and a “free” sign on it. My internal brakes screeched as I quickly pulled up to it and began to peruse the titles that were for the taking. I left without adding
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What the ‘Man-Hating Feminist’ Got Wrong About My Piece 1
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink, Politics
- October 9, 2026
The moment I do well on my resolve to stay off my phone over the weekend, something happens that’s worth seeing. Influencer Paige Connell made a video on Friday about my article published here last week titled, “What happens when the man-hating feminists have sons.” The article explores the plight of young boys whose mothers
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Today’s Misguided and Harmful Generational Divides Are Unnecessary 0
- Culture, Family, Featured
- October 8, 2026
“None of these young people want to work today. They’re lazy,” a friend at my favorite coffee shop recently asserted. “They’re ignorant. They don’t know a thing about history, and they never read books,” a phone friend has told me several times in conversation. “They’re all a bunch of snowflakes,” another friend said a couple
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Stories About Real Heroes Can Help Make Heroic Boys 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, History, MomThink
- September 30, 2026
We hear much today about the “boy crisis, the “trouble with boys,” and a “war against boys.” These problems are real. The lack of father figures and male mentors, the overwhelming predominance of female teachers in the early school grades, an obsession in many cases with video games, the prejudice of both the classroom and
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Massachusetts’ Ridiculous New Rule To Prevent More Lindsay Clancys 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink
- September 25, 2026
Lindsay Clancy’s trial ended in a mistrial several weeks ago after a jury was unable to reach a unanimous decision on whether she was criminally responsible for the deaths of her three children. Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Maura Healey sensed her citizens’ worry that the precedent of this case would lead to copycat cases, so she
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