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  • Why It’s So Hard to Get Kids Off Their Screens

    Why It’s So Hard to Get Kids Off Their Screens1

    “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

    Homesteading: Become a Modern American Pioneer1

    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

    One Simple Thing Anyone Can Do to Save America0

    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

    Choosing Children—Over More Than Just Guns2

    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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  • 4 Traditional Skills for Young Women

    4 Traditional Skills for Young Women4

    As a young woman in today’s world, I’ve seen how modern conveniences have chipped away at the skills so many used to pride themselves on. I greatly admire the men and women, particularly those among the younger generations, who have taken the time to learn the skills of their forefathers. Certainly, the pioneers didn’t have

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  • The Berenstain Bears and Traditional Parenting

    The Berenstain Bears and Traditional Parenting2

    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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