Family

How to Protect Your Children From the Wokeness Ripping Through Schools 4
- Education, Culture, Family, Politics
- August 29, 2022
It’s back to school! You bought all the school supplies and new clothes, but what about insulating your children against school indoctrination? Sadly, indoctrination resistance is now part of going back to school so you must stay vigilant and teach your children personal boundaries. Lesson plans about “social identity,” which may be called Social-Emotional Learning (SEL), Critical
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Parents, You Can Sit This One Out 2
- Family, Culture
- August 26, 2022
The website Scary Mommy is always on top of parenting trends, and its latest discovery is “sittervising.” The not-exactly-groundbreaking idea is for a parent to SIT while their kid plays, rather than feeling obligated to jump in and toss the ball, be the snowman, or praise every single shovelful of sand the child gets to
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Reflections on the Reality We’re Facing 11
- Family, Culture, Philosophy, Politics, Western Civilization
- August 25, 2022
In his Life of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell recounts an incident in which he and Johnson were discussing philosopher Bishop Berkeley’s idea that matter was non-existent, that everything in the world is ideal. When Boswell says that the bishop’s hypothesis cannot be refuted, Johnson kicks a large stone and says, “I refute him thus.” Philosophers
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Good Reading Is the Cure for Gullibility 3
- Culture, Education, Family, Literature
- August 22, 2022
The other day, a friend of mine posted on social media a picture of her three children, sitting in the living room, each with a nose in a book. She was having a proud-mom moment, noting that she couldn’t believe the day had finally come when all her children were able to read on their
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Of Laundry Lessons and College 3
- Education, Culture, Family
- August 22, 2022
Forgive the long quote coming up, but it is instructive. (And wild!) The president of Hamilton College, David Wippman, and his colleague, Cornell University American Studies professor Glenn C. Altschuler, have somehow been peeking in on the discussions parents are having online about their kids off at college. These Facebook groups can be truly helpful
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Bringing the Fun Home: Five Family Outings for Tight Budgets 5
- Family, Culture, Entertainment
- August 18, 2022
In 1987, a beaming New York Giants quarterback was the first person publicly asked what soon became a well-known question: “Phil Simms, you’ve just won the Super Bowl! What are you doing next?” “I’m gonna go to Disney World!” Simms said. Many average Americans couldn’t give Simms’s answer today. The reason isn’t Disney’s “woke” policies,
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