Family

Four Common Toddler Parenting Fails 10
- Culture, Family, MomThink
- April 2, 2024
As a mom who had two under 2 (or two children within two years), I’m preparing myself for the quickly approaching day when I have two toddlers. Keeping up with one toddler has been a handful, so two will be a challenge, but there are some lessons I have learned with my first son that
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The Inspiring Front Lines of the 20th-Century Homeschool Revolution 0
- Education, Family, History, MomThink
- April 1, 2024
When she was a young girl, Sandra Day O’Connor began her education at home. Her early years of schooling on an Arizona ranch were sitting at the kitchen table with her mother, learning to read, and taking long nature walks. I read this, and this scene of serenity, this future Supreme Court Justice, beginning her
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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 3
- 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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