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How to Step Into a New Future 1
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink
- November 6, 2024
They say the road to success is made by walking. For kids, that is literally true. Turns out that the more kids walk around, the more upward mobility they enjoy as adults, concluded a study in American Psychologist. The researchers, led by Shigehiro Oishi, wondered why there are such “large regional differences in upward social
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Are We Entering an Age of Decay as Birth Rates Fall?2
- Culture, Family, MomThink
- November 5, 2024
Most countries – even in the developing world – are entering an era of ageing and population decline. With fewer and fewer babies and more and more elderly, what does the future look like? According to Shamil Ismail, a South African investment analysist, it looks very grim. In his book The Age of Decay: How Aging
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Why Do Traditionalists Idolize the 1950s?28
- Culture, Featured, History, MomThink
- October 29, 2024
I don’t think it would be a shock to anyone to point out that traditionalists often romanticize, even idolize, 1950s American culture. Why? I think the allure lies in nostalgia, even nostalgia for a time we’ve never experienced. It’s easy to romanticize an era which we think embodies our values and lifestyle dreams. In reality,
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The Euro-American Roots of Pumpkin Spice 10
- Culture, Featured, History, MomThink
- October 28, 2024
Pumpkin spice and everything nice, that’s what basic white girls are made of! She’s wearing plaid, cute boots, and walking through autumn leaves to a pumpkin patch or apple orchard. And most importantly, come mid-October, she’s unabashedly carrying the unmistakable takeout coffee cup filled with pumpkin spice latte. She is also hailed as laughable, ditzy,
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Fact-Checking Trans Misinformation 0
- Culture, MomThink, Science
- October 17, 2024
Trans activists insist that no children – no people under 18, that is – receive gender-affirming surgery. There is “little to no utilization of gender-affirming surgeries by transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) minors in the U.S.”– JAMA Network Open, 2024 “Gender-affirming surgeries for minors are exceptionally rare, and are almost always performed for cisgender — not transgender — youth.” – Them, 2024 Gender-affirming
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Mute Buttons: Two Ways the School Complex Muzzles Parents and Students 0
- Education, MomThink
- October 16, 2024
I was asked the other day why parents and students do not have more say in their education in the government system, and my reply was simply “because that is the goal.” Specifically, the system exists to perpetuate itself and to propagandize large numbers of children each year so that they believe and pass on to their
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