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Finding Relief for the Anxious Generation in Schools and Beyond 2
- Education, Culture, Featured, MomThink
- September 17, 2024
As a new school year begins, many students have returned to a drastic shift in phone policies. A growing number of school districts—and even state legislatures—have introduced phone-free policies and are seeing kids come alive again. This shift is due at least in part to Jonathan Haidt’s new book The Anxious Generation, which makes a
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Taylor Swift, Politics, and the Value of Friendship 1
- Culture, MomThink, Politics
- September 17, 2024
Last week, former President Donald Trump stirred the pot by posting a social media message praising Brittany Mahomes, the wife of Kansas City Chiefs star quarterback Patrick Mahomes, for “strongly defending” him on social media. Whether liking a few social media posts constitutes a strong defense of the GOP presidential contender is debatable. Regardless, rumors quickly erupted
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Why Bible Stories Are Essential for Cultural Literacy 1
- Culture, Education, Featured, MomThink
- September 16, 2024
In March of 2008, then-Senator Barack Obama spoke of “A More Perfect Union” in a speech at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. In that speech, he used the stories of David and Goliath, Moses and Pharaoh, the Christians in the lion’s den, and Ezekiel’s field of dry bones to bring life to his message.
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When Back-to-School Blues Signal a Deeper Problem 1
- Education, MomThink
- September 13, 2024
September’s crisp air once carried the promise of new beginnings for students. Fresh notebooks, sharpened pencils, and the excitement of reuniting with friends painted an idyllic back-to-school season. But for an increasing number of students and families, this annual rite of passage now brings a complex mix of emotions: anticipation tinged with anxiety, hope shadowed
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How Big Agriculture Damages Local Communities 0
- Culture, Featured, MomThink
- September 10, 2024
If you drive through most rural areas in our country, you’re likely to see some old, abandoned farmsteads, lying broken like great bones in the mottled landscape. The houses are grayed and weathered, with shattered windows that give way only to darkness, the whole structure leaning out of kilter as though setting itself against a
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Don’t Trust Your Doctor? Post-COVID, Over Half of Americans Don’t 3
- Science, Featured, Health, MomThink
- September 10, 2024
In April 2020, 72 percent of Americans trusted physicians and hospitals. That number fell to just 40 percent by January of 2024. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, the politicization of the COVID-19 pandemic is to blame. After years of lockdowns and mandates, less than half of Americans trust their medical system.
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