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Making the Case for Handmade Gifts 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink
- December 10, 2025
My cousin gave me a handmade card for one of my childhood birthdays. It wasn’t just any handmade card: it was made on thick, glossy paper, complete with baubles and expensive, elegant stickers. If I remember correctly, that was her only gift to me that year. But that didn’t matter: I treasured the card, often
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Do School Book Bans Infringe on Parental Authority?1
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured, MomThink
- December 9, 2025
When I hear the phrase “book ban,” the image that comes to mind is something straight out of “Fahrenheit 451” – books torn from private residences, doused in kerosene, and thrown onto a blazing funeral pyre of intellectual tradition, removing all certainty that such works ever existed. Yet when American media uses the phrase “book
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What Makes Us Happy?0
- Culture, Family, Featured, Health, MomThink, Philosophy, Religion
- December 8, 2025
Everyone wants to be happy. As Aristotle explains in “The Nicomachean Ethics,” happiness is the thing we desire for its own sake. We don’t pursue happiness as a means to some other good; it appears to be the final end people pursue in life. The other things we aim at – wealth, pleasure, relationships –
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Why the ‘Rite of Passage’ Needs to Make a Comeback 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink, Philosophy, Religion, Western Civilization
- December 1, 2025
A friend of mine recently relayed the story of how her daughter asked why she couldn’t get her ears pierced like her older sister. “Well, she’s more responsible,” was the gist of my friend’s reply to her daughter, “and when you learn to be more responsible, you can get yours pierced too.” Lo and behold,
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Digital Life: A New Kind of Existence 0
- Culture, Entertainment, Featured, MomThink, Western Civilization
- November 26, 2025
The average American spends over seven hours daily on screens. That means most of us live about half our waking hours inside a digital vortex. Engagement with the digital world is no longer an occasional pastime, an interruption in an otherwise analog existence. For many, it’s not a tool, but a way of life since vast portions
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Dresses: A Secret Influence on Male and Female Attitudes?2
- Culture, Featured, MomThink
- November 20, 2025
A while back, I went out for a quick walk one night, not bothering to change the skirt I’d worn to a church service earlier in the evening. While out, I ran into an older neighbor and his wife. After a bit of cheerful small talk, the husband apologetically said, “I probably shouldn’t say this,
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