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An Old Guy Takes Some Lessons From ‘An Old-Fashioned Girl’0
- Culture, Family, Featured, History, Literature, MomThink
- July 16, 2026
Why does someone past the Psalmist’s “threescore years and ten” find himself entranced by a 150-year-old novel aimed at adolescents, namely, Louisa May Alcott’s “An Old-Fashioned Girl”? The credit or blame – take your pick – for this infatuation lands on a friend whose passion is for older fiction aimed at young readers, like the
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Your Child Doesn’t Need To Be Entertained 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink
- July 15, 2026
One constant of my growing-up years was my family’s afternoon “quiet time.” My siblings and I would each be given a separate space in which to play – our room, usually, or a designated spot in the house – and we would amuse ourselves quietly for an hour or two. I loved the days when
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Raising Kids to Keep the Faith 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink, Religion
- July 2, 2026
Some of us may still practice the faith with which we were raised. Others may have fallen away from childhood religion into agnosticism, atheism, or indifference. Still others may have converted to another creed. While all these shifts in religiosity are far from uncommon, one overarching fact remains: Religious practice in the United States over
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The ‘Tradwives’ Who Don’t Talk the Talk, but Walk the Walk 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink
- June 29, 2026
Whenever the internet makes a trend of a certain lifestyle, that lifestyle, however good it may be, is unlikely to emerge unscathed. The cartooning of traditional wives and mothers on social media is one such example. Many mothers build massive followings online by romanticizing homeschooling, baking, homesteading, and other markers of traditional motherhood. It’s all
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Stop Writing Your Own Wedding Vows 0
- Culture, Featured, MomThink, Religion
- June 17, 2026
In the months leading up to my marriage, I was regaled with a variety of online content about life as a fiancée as the tech overlords deduced I was about to wed. One common problem I observed during this period regarded the writing of wedding vows. My wedding occurred just before AI was used for
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Baby-Murderers Go Mask-off Before the Entire Internet 1
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink
- June 10, 2026
Earlier this year, YouTuber Jesse Ridgway and his wife decided to legally kill their child due to his high chance of being born with a disability. Genetic testing, which is notoriously faulty, claimed the baby had an extra chromosome and would have Down Syndrome, an abnormality that often results in shorter lifespan, developmental issues, and
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