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  • Manners Are the Adhesive Glue That Binds Society Together

    Manners Are the Adhesive Glue That Binds Society Together3

    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?

    What Happened to American Civics?1

    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

    Back to School, and Time to Foster Creativity0

    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

    Social-Emotional Learning Is Hurting Students1

    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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  • How to Diversify Your Child’s Potential

    How to Diversify Your Child’s Potential0

    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

    Does Drinking Dairy Make You Racist? A Milky Mirage of Politicized Academia3

    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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