Category: children

When Parents and School Boards Clash Over Children’s Health

Many U.S. parents are no longer silent about the policies of the schools their children attend, and they are increasingly organizing and speaking out at school board meetings. Last summer, Epoch Times reported on one such parent who criticized the teaching of critical race theory (CRT) and early sexual education at a school board meeting…


Parents Against Stupid Stuff

Commentary Adults deciding where to settle and raise their families once considered tax rates, job opportunities, and housing prices. Now they also have to ask themselves whether they want their children in schools that push gender fluidity, teach masturbation, and provide tampons in the boys’ room for females transitioning to become males. Several states have…


How Children Become Progressives

Commentary How are progressives made? By cooking them in a public school six hours a day, five days a week where they are seemingly indoctrinated with an ideology that contradicts the values and beliefs of many of their parents. It began as a trickle, but now is approaching a flood as activist groups—notably LGBTQ organizations—have…


Grooming Your Children

“Grooming” is a term used to refer to how adults psychologically create emotional bonds with children to lower inhibitions. This term has been used lately in reference to the education system and introducing certain sex and gender concepts to children at early ages, but it seems grooming may be a far broader strategy to get…


UK Toddlers Unable to Speak or Play Properly Due to COVID-19 Lockdowns

The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) say they are “very worried” about the number of toddlers in the UK that are struggling with communication because of repeated lockdowns. Therapists and charities have expressed fears about a sharp decline in speech and motor skills, with referrals for language therapy doubling. Speech and language…


Delicious Ways to Sneak Fiber Into Your Child’s Diet

The biggest shortfall in most Americans’ diets isn’t vitamins or minerals. It’s fiber. Experts say adult women should get 25 grams a day while men should get 38 grams. Yet we average a paltry 15 grams. Our kids aren’t doing any better. The American Heart Association (AHA) recommends that children ages 1 to 3 get…


Never Too Young to Learn Responsibility

If we’re serious about returning common sense to America, then we must move beyond these busybodies (and our own fears) and start encouraging a society where children are given more responsibility and independence at younger ages. How young is too young for a child to be running errands? That question is prompted in large part…


Impact on Children in Lockdown to Be Included in Official UK COVID-19 Pandemic Inquiry

Children’s welfare will be added to an inquiry that hopes to learn lessons from the British government’s response to COVID 19. On Thursday, Baroness Hallett, a former High Court judge and the Chair of the UK COVID-19 Public Inquiry, wrote to Prime Minister Boris Johnson with her proposed changes for an Inquiry that will play…


Police: Woman Fatally Shoots Her 2 Children, Self in Oregon

GRESHAM, Ore.—An Oregon mother fatally shot her children, ages 6 and 8, before killing herself, police said, and court documents show the woman was headed to trial next month in a bitter and lengthy custody dispute with her ex-partner. The mother who killed herself, Ashley Palmer, 31, had petitioned the court at least twice on…


Colorado School Board Cuts Off Mom for Reading Out Sex Scene From Book Available to Students

A Colorado mother was cut off at her local school board meeting after trying to read out a sexually explicit passage from a book she said was available to children in the school district. The mother, identifying herself as D. Barnes, spoke at a March 16 school board meeting for Adams 12 Five Star Schools,…