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If 'Banned' Books Are Harmless, Joe Biden Should Read Them to Kids Jun. 16, 2023
Joe Biden recently hosted a Pride month event for families with LGBT kids on the White House South L... Read More
Gold Stars Buy Nothing: Why We Should Be More Ambitious About Community Care Jun. 16, 2023
I set out chamomile seedlings on the table in my yard so neighbors could grab them. The Buy Nothing ... Read More
Cops Telling Parents How to Raise Their Kids Jun. 15, 2023
At last, it was the big day for Tom D's daughter, age 6: The day she would walk to get a Gatorade al... Read More
Kids Don't Need Exceptions, They Need Fortitude Jun. 09, 2023
My son has been pouting about a life jacket for two days. Summer has begun and so has day camp at th... Read More
Let Your Kids Waste Some Time Jun. 08, 2023
Meet Rod Brooks, a guy whose life story embodies the big idea: What we do as kids, just for fun, i... Read More
Are You Raising a Free-Range Kid? Jun. 02, 2023
How much independence is your child really ready to handle, and how willing are you to grant it? "Mo... Read More
The Scariest Danger of Summer Jun. 01, 2023
If you want to keep your kids safe this summer, don't focus on stranger danger. (Especially since th... Read More
Additional Scandal That an Already Challenged Catholic Church Cannot Afford May. 31, 2023
The Catholic Church has long seemed to assume a holier-than-thou moral authority that has never quit... Read More
San Quentin Prison and School Choice May. 30, 2023
When I was a boy, I spent some time inside San Quentin State Prison and got to know a few of the inm... Read More
Stop Scaring Our Kids to Death May. 30, 2023
As nearly every standardized test is showing, our schools are doing an abysmal job teaching kids how... Read More
Smoking's Long, Slow Slide Into Oblivion May. 27, 2023
It's become common at the start of movies and TV shows to show a list of all the various ways the co... Read More
Memorial Day Weekend Kicks off Summer in the Neighborhood May. 26, 2023
Memorial Day is the day set aside each year to remember those who gave all in service to this countr... Read More
Why Do We Keep Underestimating Kids? May. 25, 2023
Child protection laws and policies that determine at what age kids can do things on their own are of... Read More
San Quentin Prison and School Choice May. 24, 2023
When I was a boy, I spent some time inside San Quentin State Prison and got to know a few of the inm... Read More
A Real Rainbow May. 17, 2023
We were driving up the two-lane highway that runs from Williams, Arizona, to the south rim of the Gr... Read More
Of Genders and Dopes May. 05, 2023
Up here in Massachusetts, where we persist in our bizarre notions of equality, a middle school kid g... Read More
No, Her Kids Were NOT Almost Kidnapped May. 04, 2023
"My children were the targets of attempted kidnap," Katie Sorensen, 31, announced in a viral two-par... Read More
I'm Sick. You're Sick. We've All Been Sick for a Year -- Here's Why. Apr. 28, 2023
In the past year my family has had COVID-19, the flu, strep throat, ear infections and many colds. T... Read More
Why It's So Hard to Get Kids Off Their Screens Apr. 27, 2023
"How many of you have closed your email and then immediately reopened it because you might have just... Read More
Crying Babies Stink, but So Do Adults Who Freak Out About Them Apr. 22, 2023
Did you see the video of the guy freaking out because of a crying baby on a plane? I did, and I'll b... Read More
