Family

Families: Islands of Sanity in an Ocean of Crazy 1
- Family
- May 16, 2023
In her forthcoming witty—often snarky—book Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War, Peachy Keenan writes of her group of acquaintances, “Because I have fewer than eight children, I am something of a lightweight.” She then recounts the following incident: “A friend my age recently welcomed her twelfth baby. (That’s a one followed
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Mothers: Raising One of the Few Hopes We Have for the Future 0
- Politics, Family
- May 16, 2023
When asked for some of my favorite books over the years, one of the titles I regularly recommend is Mother, written by Kathleen Norris in 1911. Although somewhat obscure and rather old, I love suggesting this book because its subtle message is extremely prescient for our time, and one that I believe gets to the heart of
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Why It’s So Hard to Get Kids Off Their Screens 1
- Politics, Family
- May 1, 2023
“How many of you have closed your email and then immediately reopened it because you might have just gotten an email?” Laughter rippled through the audience — including me — as we listened to Emily Cherkin give a talk at The Brearley School in Manhattan about tech and kids and us: parents, kids, educators, email
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Homesteading: Become a Modern American Pioneer 1
- Family, MomThink
- April 26, 2023
Six years ago my husband and I moved our family of 10 to a five-acre hobby farm and a new lifestyle. Prior to this, we’d been living in an 1,100-square-foot brick home built in the 1940s near the boundary of St. Louis. I loved that house. It had a breakfast nook and an enclosed sunporch
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One Simple Thing Anyone Can Do to Save America 0
- Family
- April 25, 2023
With the American way of life visibly crumbling, I get a lot of people asking me some form of the question, “But what can I do to save America?” I’ve given various answers to those who ask this, but a new pat answer popped into my mind the other day: Be like Amber de la Motte. If
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Choosing Children—Over More Than Just Guns 2
- Politics, Family
- April 20, 2023
The spate of recent mass shootings is once again turning us all into experts who wax eloquent on social media. “We can’t have this anymore,” many shout. “It’s time to do something!” “Doing something,” of course, often doubles as code for gun control. But such gun control is right and good, individuals argue, because it
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