Category: children

The Leftists Writing Your Child’s Social Studies Lessons

Commentary It’s hard to know what’s worse—brainwashing kids or lying about it. Parents worried their kids are being indoctrinated with critical race theory can’t get straight answers. Local school boards and principals lie to them, claiming children are merely being taught to be “critical thinkers.” On Saturday, the truth came out. Teachers unions and activists…


Opinion: The Leftists Writing Your Child’s Social Studies Lessons

Commentary It’s hard to know what’s worse—brainwashing kids or lying about it. Parents worried their kids are being indoctrinated with critical race theory can’t get straight answers. Local school boards and principals lie to them, claiming children are merely being taught to be “critical thinkers.” On Saturday, the truth came out. Teachers unions and activists…


What’s the Best Age to Give My Teen a Smartphone?

If you’re looking for confirmation that smartphones and social media are good for your kids, this is not one of those posts. The “best age” question is a trick question. Here’s why. We don’t stress about the “best age” for things that are inherently good for our kids. Are there hundreds of opinions on the…


Pfizer Advances Its COVID-19 Vaccine Trial for Children 11 and Younger

Pfizer says it’s moving forward with its Phase 2/3 trial in the pediatric population and expects to provide the COVID-19 vaccine to children between the ages of 5–11 in the fall, and soon after for those 4 and younger, if studies show immune response and safety. “If safety and immunogenicity is confirmed, and pending authorization…


Tips to Realize Your Child’s Potential

One goal that parents might strive for is to guide their children to realize their fullest potential. Each child is an individual with innate talents, interests, strengths, motivations, and gifts. What they could become and what potential they have within them are unknown. How can mothers and fathers parent in a way that allows their…


The Screen Struggle

Parents across the globe are struggling with what some call the biggest parenting challenge of all time: how to control a child’s overuse of addictive technology (primarily video games and social media/smartphones) in a culture where they have constant access to it. Teens are binging on YouTube and video games through the night, sending racy…


Sacrifice as a Saving Grace

When I was a young professional woman, I recognized that a husband and children would fulfill me. I desired a committed relationship and the opportunity to parent. I had matured within a society that taught me self-reliance and independence at the cost of relationship and mutual support, but I recognized value in forming a partnership,…


COVID Vaccines Must Be ‘Incredibly Safe’ Before Use on Children: UK Minister

The UK’s medicines regulator and scientific advisers still have to look “very carefully” at whether COVID jabs can be offered to children, the vaccines minister has said. Appearing on Sky News, Nadhim Zahawi was asked why the UK has not followed in the footsteps of the European Medicines Agency, which has recommended the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine…


How Young Is Too Young? Today’s Children Can Consent to a Range of Procedures

Canadians as young as 12 can get birth control, abortion, cross-sex hormones, and COVID-19 vaccinations without parental consent if authorities deem them informed enough to decide, a situation that legal experts and advocates call into question. When it comes to vaccinations, Brian Giesbrecht, a retired judge who is a senior policy fellow for the Frontier…


Italian Cable Car Crash Kills 9, Injures 2 Children

ROME—Nine people died and two children were seriously injured on Sunday when a cable car linking Italy’s Lake Maggiore with a nearby mountain in the Alps plunged to the ground. The Stresa-Mottarone cable car carries tourists and local people from the town of Stresa on Lake Maggiore, almost 1,400 meters (4,593 feet) above sea level,…