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Your Children Are More Important Than Your Dreams 2
- Family, MomThink
- August 19, 2024
The phenomenon known as Ballerina Farm on Instagram is one of the most popular moms in America. With her eight children, a gaggle of hogs, endless Instagram videos of baking from scratch, and her 10 million followers, Hannah Neeleman is a mom to be reckoned with. Oh, and she also wins beauty pageants like a boss. And
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C.S. Lewis on the True, the Good, and the Beautiful 2
- Featured, Literature, MomThink
- August 15, 2024
Are truth, goodness, and beauty related? C.S. Lewis and many others of the greatest minds in the Western tradition thought so. For thousands of years, philosophers and theologians have argued that these “three transcendentals” are fundamentally connected. To understand one, you must understand all three. Truth, goodness, and beauty are called the “three transcendentals” because
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Manners Are the Adhesive Glue That Binds Society Together 3
- Culture, MomThink
- August 14, 2024
Convention, customs, manners and civility. When my daughter Ella was 16, I met her at a local restaurant for dinner. I was already seated when she arrived and before I could hold the chair out for her, she plopped down in the seat next to me. I was livid. I stood up and told her
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What Happened to American Civics?1
- Education, History, MomThink
- August 12, 2024
My son’s school assigned a civics project for summer vacation. The project’s scope is expansive and spans from explaining the history and functions of the three branches of government to creating a flip book of landmark Supreme Court cases like Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v Board of Education. One of the tasks is a minor level of
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Back to School, and Time to Foster Creativity 0
- Education, MomThink
- August 9, 2024
Back-to-school season is here, and with the recent examples of race-based classroom activities and sexually charged curriculum in schools nationwide, parents are right to wonder what their students will be taught this fall. A recent commentary by an education reporter about his own children revealed that last year his sixth grader had no homework, spelling tests, handwriting
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Social-Emotional Learning Is Hurting Students 1
- Education, MomThink
- August 7, 2024
Social-emotional learning (SEL) has been in vogue in education circles for decades. Following its precepts, teachers, counselors, and administrators encourage students to look inward and focus on their feelings. The result? A generation of young people who can’t stop thinking about their emotions, leaving them incredibly fragile. But that’s not what many of the experts
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