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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on Wednesday that she is leaving her position as the public face of the Trump administration. The announcement was a bit surprising, not only because Leavitt just returned from maternity leave, but also because of her comments in recent months indicating that women can indeed have it all
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As homeschooling goes mainstream, some contend that homeschooling works for many families, but it isn’t a good idea for everyone. That is not the case. There are, frankly, fewer reasons to not homeschool than to homeschool. Education outside the home, especially in government schools, should be treated as the exception to the general rule of
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Gen Alpha, born between 2010 and 2024, is growing up right now. As technology expands and the culture war rages, supporting our young people can be tricky. But looking at Gen Z can help guide our approach to Gen Alpha. Going Phone Free Smartphones are damaging to children. Though there’s little to any dissent on
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While living in France last spring, I went to the park one chilly evening with the lady who was hosting me. We were watching her three-year-old daughter play on the playground with other young children, when my hostess suddenly gasped. “What?” I asked. She indicated another little girl on the playground, perhaps seven or eight
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On a recent Saturday morning seven of my grandchildren from two different families came to my apartment for an ice cream breakfast, now a once-or-twice a year Grandpa tradition. After they’d eaten their fill of ice cream covered with fruits, chocolate chips, butterscotch or chocolate syrup, and whipped cream topped with the customary cherry, we
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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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