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How to Diversify Your Child’s Potential 0
- Education, Family, MomThink
- August 6, 2024
Investors are always told to “diversify” their portfolios. Don’t put all your money in stocks — what if the market plunges? But don’t put all your money in bonds — you’ll miss the market rallies. And for God’s sake, don’t put all your money in one company. Or, to put it an older way: Don’t
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Does Drinking Dairy Make You Racist? A Milky Mirage of Politicized Academia 3
- Culture, Featured, MomThink, Science
- August 5, 2024
The Daily Mail recently reported that academics at the History of Science Museum in Oxford are going to study the “political nature” of milk. They claim that milk is a “Northern European obsession” that has been forced on other cultures, and the belief that milk is an important part of your diet is a “white
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A Children’s Book We Can All Learn From: ‘Farmhouse’ by Sophie Blackall 1
- Literature, MomThink
- August 2, 2024
The old farmhouse that my wife grew up in has been in her family since the Civil War. It’s seeped in memories and nostalgia as generations of large families have been raised there, making it the witness of the countless joys, sorrows, failures, and achievements that go along with growing up. When we visit there,
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When Conventional Medicine Fails—Then What?6
- Science, Featured, Health, MomThink
- August 1, 2024
We live in an unprecedented time in history. Never before has healthcare separated botanical medicine (using herbs to treat disease and illness) so strikingly from the conventional medicine of the day. But why has botanical medicine become something people turn to only when conventional medicine has failed them? From what I can tell, botanical medicine
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Chronic Absenteeism Is a Problem, But Most Proposed Solutions Miss the Point 1
- Culture, Education, MomThink
- August 1, 2024
Two weeks ago, three unlikely bedfellows joined forces to announce their intention to cut K-12 chronic absenteeism in half by 2029. The right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, the left-leaning Education Trust, and the nonprofit organization Attendance Works revealed their plan in Washington, DC. The coalition hopes to combat chronic absenteeism, defined as students missing 10 percent or more
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Etiquette Worth Resurrecting 2
- MomThink, Culture
- July 24, 2024
Every culture in history has its own etiquette practices. Western Civilization is no different! Today, many great practices have fallen by the wayside for one reason or another. Let’s explore a few forgotten etiquette customs that should make a comeback! RSVPs … including officially canceling. Enough no-showing. Ghosting anyone, for any reason other than an
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