“Ma’am, I need you to come pick up your daughter,” I say into the phone. “She has been suspended for continual and willful defiance.” “What did she do?” comes the reply. “Yesterday, she cussed out our dean when he asked her to go to class,” I answer, glossing past the many times she had skipped…
Veteran Advice for Homeschooling High School
A whole new set of concerns tends to weigh heavily when it comes to homeschooling high school—especially for college-bound students. I asked homeschooling veteran Robbin Moore for her advice. She homeschooled all six of her children from the beginning. Five of them have already completed high school and two have graduated from college, both magna…
Help Your Kids Break Bad Screen Habits the Easy Way
Not all screen uses are bad. We watch YouTube to figure out how to fix our car or make a new recipe. We use software to make household budgets, and we need email for nearly every area of life. These technologies can help us navigate the everyday details of life. But some leisure screen habits—video…
The Importance of a Father in a Child’s Life
Importance of Fatherhood: Teaching Your Child It is all too common nowadays to hear people speaking down about fatherhood and fathers in general. If you turn on the TV or listen to the radio, it will not be too long until you hear some type of dad joke. Humor is great, but is important that…
Protecting the Magic of Childhood
March 18, 2022
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A couple of years ago, some friends and I were discussing the lottery. “When people ask me if I ever buy tickets, I tell them I already won the lottery,” one man said. “I was born in the middle of the 20th century in the United States of America.” Roughly 70 years after that mid-20th century childhood…
7 Things Every Man Who’s Entering His 30s Should Know
By the time you hit your 30th birthday, you should have a good idea of what sort of things you are good at from a career point of view and probably have a list of goals and targets that you want to achieve in the next decade and beyond. You may also have developed a…
Is Kindness Extinct? Not by a Long Shot
A friend from New York recently asked, “Do we even remember what kindness is?” Our phone conversation was all over the ballpark, and we never got back to her question, but her remark kept bugging me, popping into my head at random times all week long. My friend’s work puts her in front of a…
Why Blue Light Is Bad for Kids: Blue Light Glasses & How to Protect Children From Digital Screens
March 16, 2022
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There are few things that children of the 21st century like to hear less than being told they need to put the phone or tablet away. The average American kid (or teenager) would happily scroll or click away until the moments before they go to sleep, if left to their own devices (see what happened when this family did an…
Steps to Free Our Kids From Screen Dependency
March 15, 2022
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“I don’t know how to explain it, but something is wrong with my son,” one mother told me, fighting back tears. “He’s a good student, he does his chores, he used to be so sensitive and caring. But I feel like I’m losing him. His video games are the center of his universe now and…
Real Men Wanted
Another wonder of technology was unveiled recently when marine archaeologists used undersea drones to locate and record the wreck of Ernest Shackleton’s ship, Endurance. Video footage shows a surprisingly well-preserved ship, its name still intact and clearly visible. Digging up historical artifacts is always fascinating, particularly when those artifacts are tied to a thrilling event like Shackleton’s…
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