Family

The Berenstain Bears and Traditional Parenting 1
- Family
- April 13, 2023
I consider myself a scholarly expert on the Berenstain Bears. Not because I’ve actually written any scholarly works on the series of books by Stan and Jan Berenstain, but just because I’m an academic and I have read and reread dozens of Berenstain books for more than a decade with first one daughter and now
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‘Little Platoons’: The Family Will Win 4
- Politics, Family
- April 11, 2023
In my younger years, my mother bought a recording of the musical South Pacific. We kids played it so often that we learned most of the songs by heart. This past week, one of the songs, “Cockeyed Optimist,” as sung by Mitzi Gaynor, kept popping into my head. Here are a few lines: I have
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California LGBT Activists Call for Taking Children From Parents 3
- Politics, Family
- April 10, 2023
In California, “stranger danger” may be about to acquire a whole new meaning. Forget warning kids. It’s the parents in California who will need to be terrified of strangers if a new bill passes. Snuck into AB 665, legislation ostensibly about extending mental health care to lower-income California youths, is a provision that effectively would
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Virginia Makes It Legal for Kids to Play Outside 1
- Politics, Family
- March 31, 2023
Children in Virginia can now play outside without their parents getting investigated for neglect. Imagine that! Sunday night, Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed what is colloquially called the “Reasonable Childhood Independence” bill — and was formerly known as the Free-Range Parenting bill. It passed both houses unanimously. Wait — Democrats and Republicans agreed on a parenting
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Toxic Feminism and the Assault on Traditional Women 3
- Politics, Family
- March 30, 2023
It’s Monday, March 27, and tomorrow evening I’m having supper with a trad-wife and her trad-husband. It’s really a trad-family, with four little ones, ages 7 and down, receiving a trad-childhood. The meal won’t be trad—the trad-wife is quite the gourmet chef—but this trad-guy, who is me, will enjoy it no matter what. We’ll say
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We Wanted the Best for Our Children, But Made a Mistake 3
- Politics, Family
- March 27, 2023
An article about to be published in the Journal of Pediatrics is titled, “Decline in Independent Activity as a Cause of Decline in Children’s Mental Wellbeing: Summary of the Evidence.” The authors are three big names in child development: Anthropologist David Lancy, psychologist David Bjorklund and Peter Gray, a professor in the Dept. of Psychology
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