Recently, I went to the pharmacy at our local grocery store, Martin’s, and found my prescription wouldn’t be ready for pick-up for another 30 minutes. I snagged a small cart and got some chicken that was on sale and some bananas, but otherwise roamed around the store looking at my fellow shoppers. Usually, I’m too…
5 Fun Family Night Ideas That Spark Creativity and Curiosity
Family nights are one of the best ways to play together as a family while also strengthening your relationships with one another. Whether you plan a weekly, biweekly, or monthly family night, the anticipation is energizing for kids and parents alike. Are your kids bored with the same old pizza and board game nights? With…
Trust the Science and Skip the Gender-Neutral Toys and Clothes
Stay-at-home father Jay Deitcher prided himself on “blurring gender lines,” a trait he tried hard to pass along to his own young son. So he hid the kiddie clothing that sported footballs and instead gave his son a baby doll to push in a stroller on their walks, Deitcher explains on Today online. And then his…
Homeschool: Don’t Leave Out the Best Parts
When most homeschooling parents think about their children’s course of study and what subjects to include in their education, reading, writing, math, science, and history likely come to mind. While teaching these is important, of course, so too are those areas of focus that bring delight, beauty, and meaning. They may be barely glanced at…
Pampered Pets: Keeping the Pup or Kitty Happy
Those who aren’t pet people sometimes struggle with the sentiment and importance pet owners place on their dogs and cats. There are certainly other pets, such as horses, reptiles, bunnies, fish, and more, but according to the 2021–2022 survey conducted by the American Pet Products Association, 70 percent of U.S. households—accounting for 90.5 million families—included…
Moral Tales for Children From McGuffey’s Readers: A Kind Brother
May 14, 2022
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This is the second instalment in our McGuffey Readers series, in which we reproduce some of the best moral tales from the classic 1800s schoolbooks that sold an estimated 122 million copies by 1960, the largest circulation of any book in the world next to the Bible and Webster’s Dictionary. McGuffey’s Readers played an important…
Learning Isn’t Confined to Schools
A lot of folks continue their education after leaving school. Doctors, attorneys, nurses, computer programmers, and many others enroll in continuing education courses, attend seminars, and subscribe to professional journals to keep abreast of changes in their chosen fields. Several individuals I know in such trades are avid readers of magazines giving them new ideas on improving their work…
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…
How to Have a Great Interview
An interview is essentially a talent show in which you get to display why you would be the perfect choice for the job. Be Enthusiastic Most interviewers are looking for someone they would want to work with, so make it clear that would be you with a positive attitude and genuine smiles. Let the interviewer…
A Better Way to Discipline Kids? The Results Suggest ‘Yes’ (Part 1 of 2)
Pretty much everything under the sun has been tried. In the olden days, corporal punishment seems to have been the approach de rigueur. “Full of blows” was how celebrated Roman poet Horace described his teacher. “Racks, claws, and various instruments of torture” were the tools of discipline used to straighten out a young and rebellious,…
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