Family

Standing for Truth in Scaryville 5
- Culture, Family, Politics, Religion
- September 26, 2022
Walking recently in the fast-gentrifying former mill-town section of Middle America in which I live, I spied yet another sign taped to a front window. “Anti-choice is NOT pro-life!” it read. “Yeah, pro-choice is pro-life,” I mutter under my breath as I pass. I’m no longer surprised by the signs I see in many windows
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Seven Rules for Getting Along With Those You Live With 4
- Family, Culture, Religion
- September 22, 2022
Some friends of mine recently sent their oldest son to college. In the bustle of moving into the dorm, meeting new friends, and conversing with old ones, the father took a moment to impart some wisdom to his son. He exhorted him to remember that he was now swimming in multiple spheres of influence and needed
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A Karen Calls Cops on a Kid 4
- Family, Culture, Education
- September 16, 2022
A Meridian, ID, resident recently called the police department to demand a cop hurry over and apprehend an illegal solicitor—someone who’d knocked on her door to peddle without a permit. As reported by Deputy David Gomez, a School Resource Officer in Idaho City, on his lively Facebook Page, the caller told the cops she was
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It’s Time to Root Students in Fertile Soil 0
- Education, Culture, Family, Religion
- September 12, 2022
I’ve been doing a lot of gardening and landscaping lately, building new flower beds and filling them with salvaged soil, edging them with rocks and planting them. I’ve moved plants to give them more suitable growing conditions—more or less light, or wind, or exposure to street traffic, depending on their sensitivities—plants sort of tell you
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Our Civilizational Crisis Is Really a Crisis in Parenting 2
- Family, Culture, Entertainment
- September 12, 2022
“It’s tough to be alive now. I think societal collapse is in the air, it smells like it, and without being pretentious, I hope that’s why these movies matter because that’s the role of the artist is to shine a light on what’s going on.” That’s Timothée Chalamet, an up-and-coming American actor musing on Bones & All, the latest
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Young People Are Depressed…Who Can Blame Them?3
- Culture, Family, Politics, Uncategorized
- September 8, 2022
Last year a Harvard Youth Poll found 51 percent of Americans ages 18-29 had felt depressed, down, or hopeless at times in the two weeks before responding to the survey. While adults might respond in similar numbers—feeling “down” covers a lot of territory—let’s take the poll at face value and assume that teens and twenty-somethings
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