Family

Feeling Unqualified to Homeschool? 8 Resources to Get Started 1
- Education, Family, Featured, MomThink
- March 15, 2024
If you’re feeling unqualified to homeschool, you’re not alone. The question of what and how to teach stressed me out early on in my homeschooling journey. I found that having a good curriculum did a great deal to reduce my fears of not being qualified to teach. I wanted to strike a balance between bookwork,
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Dealing with Teens and Spouses: Some Guidelines Compliments of the Federal Government 0
- Entertainment, Family, Featured, Politics
- March 11, 2024
By extracting some of the expressions buried in the blather employed by politicians and bureaucrats, America’s parents, husbands, and wives can find new and more effective ways to manage conversations with a teen or spouse. These gifts of gab should come as no surprise. After all, given the many failures of the federal government—the crisis
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175+ Traditionalist Books for Your Kids You’ve Never Heard Of 4
- Family, Education, Featured, MomThink
- March 5, 2024
Your kids are (finally!) reading on their own . . . Now what? Well, now is when we parents face the often-herculean task of trying to verify which books are safe and fit for our kids to read—not to mention supportive of traditional values! I’d like to offer a list of some favorite young adult
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Not All Adults at the Park Are Predators 3
- Family, MomThink
- March 4, 2024
I’m trying not to obsess about child overprotection, but … obsess I do. Here’s the latest object of my ire: the playground signs in my berg, New York City, that say, “Playground rules prohibit adults except in the company of children.” Apparently, any adult who simply wants to sit on a bench and watch kids
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The Disturbing End of Our Modern ‘Me’ Culture 4
- Family, Featured, MomThink
- March 1, 2024
In his popular work Culture of Narcissism, Christopher Lasch wrote: To live for the moment is the prevailing passion—to live for yourself, not for your predecessors or posterity. We are fast losing the sense of historical continuity, the sense of belonging to a succession of generations originating in the past and stretching into the future.
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The NY Times Says Intensive Parenting Is Best, But…2
- Family, MomThink
- February 26, 2024
“Parents Are Highly Involved in their Adult Children’s Lives and Fine With It,” declared the front page of The New York Times. Added the subhead: “New surveys show that today’s intensive parenting has benefits, not just risks, and most young adults seem happy with it, too.” Is that true? “Intensive parenting” is best, and kids
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