Category: parents

How to Be a Great Child

We’ve all heard angry kids say “I didn’t ask for you as my parents,” but it goes the other way, too. With a little effort, you can be the child your parents hoped for. Listen and Be Patient Listening, fully and completely without distractions, shows respect, but is also a great way to learn new…


Video of Homeschool Mom Calming Her 5-Year-Old Resonates with Parents All Over

They call her “Mama Bennett.” Destiny Bennett, a married 29-year-old mother of three boys, aged 8, 5, and 3, has spent her entire life around children. After growing up in a home daycare run by her mother for 18 years, she went on to work as an afterschool program teacher and to study early childhood…


Competing Parents and Controlling Institutions

Commentary The Supreme Court is to hear two cases—against Harvard and the University of North Carolina—that call into question the use of race-based affirmative action. Students for a Fair Admissions (SFFA) ask the court to hold that institutions of higher education cannot use race as a factor in admissions. Is it time to end race-based…


Parent Smoking Linked to Rheumatoid Arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) causes pain and swelling in the joints. It’s an autoimmune disease, where the body’s immune system attacks your own healthy joint tissue. Experts don’t know what causes the disease. Genes, hormones, and factors in the environment may play a role. Smoking cigarettes is known to increase the risk of developing RA. Researchers…


San Francisco Mayor Says Recalled School Board Members Failed to Do Their Fundamental Job

Responding to the recall in which voters decisively ejected three members from the San Francisco Board of Education, Mayor London Breed acknowledged that the school board has failed to do its most basic job, which is to educate children. “It was really about the frustration of the Board of Education doing their fundamental job, and…


‘Brainy Bunch’: Parents Homeschool Their 10 Kids With All of Them Graduating High School at 12

Two Alabama parents who homeschooled their 10 children, with all of them graduating high school at the mere age of 12—are now rocketing forward in their respective areas of interest. High school sweethearts Kip and Mona Lisa Harding, both 53, have raised their kids to believe that “if it’s their calling, God will help them…


Mom, Son Texted About Gun Day Before School Shooting

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich.—A day before four students were killed at a Michigan school, the mother of the teenager charged with carrying out the mass shooting sent him a text message asking if he had showed teachers a “pic of your new gun,” an investigator testified Tuesday. The text was one of several between Jennifer and…


Birth of ‘The Counter Culture Mom Show’—Spotlight with Tina Griffin

Host Tina Griffin shares the compelling story of how she went from Wisconsin farm kid to Hollywood actress. Learn what she discovered firsthand while working on film sets, which birthed her “Hollywood Exposed” message she’s been sharing globally for over twenty years. Today, The Counter Culture Mom Show is advancing Tina’s mission to help parents…


Terry Schilling on CRT Indoctrination in American Schools: A Divided, Weak Future for the Country

America faces a future marked by division and weakness if its youth continues to be indoctrinated with anti-American ideologies like critical race theory (CRT) warned Terry Schilling, president of conservative advocacy group American Principles Project. An outgrowth of Marxism, CRT interprets society through a Marxist dichotomy between “oppressor” and “oppressed,” but replaces the class categories…


Parents Tell Their 8 Sons That They Are Expecting a 9th Boy in Epic Gender Reveal

When a 29-year-old mom of eight boys announced her ninth pregnancy, many speculated that she might be expecting a daughter. But in an epic gender reveal video, she and her husband break the news to their sons, and the world, that summer 2022 heralds the entry of baby boy number nine. Nashville native Yalancia Rosario,…