Parenting

Let the children fail … still

Let the children fail … still

Parenting |  Every night, 8-year-old Cooper faces his dreaded literature guide. Little House in the Big Woods is Cooper’s current nemesis. Each afternoon he does his…

Parenting's risky experiment

Parenting's risky experiment

Parenting |  Parenting is experiencing a major shift, and it has nothing to do with breast feeding, reusable diapers or co-sleeping. It’s the increasing age of the…

The late Betty Friedan in 2000.

Mother against child

Abortion |  Most of human progress, since around 1500, has aimed at reversing the curse of Genesis 3—easing burdens, reducing sweat, relieving pain. Who isn’t…

Broken arrows
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Broken arrows

Parenting |  Children are a heritage from the Lord but, like their parents, also sinners in need of grace

Review: <em>Fit to Burst: Abundance, Mayhem, and the Joys of Motherhood</em>

Review: Fit to Burst: Abundance, Mayhem, and the Joys of Motherhood

Books |  When I was pregnant at 23, I devoured parenting books. My husband and I bucked the current trend to wait for children: Our first son was born the day after…

What marriage most needs

What marriage most needs

Marriage |  “While we were still weak, at the right time, Christ died for the ungodly. … [W]hile we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Those verses (Romans…

Too fundamental to fail

Too fundamental to fail

Parenting |  The Center for the Next Generation is promoting an effort on behalf of America’s children, Too Small to Fail. The group reports that Ann Romney’s horse…

Don Feder

A failure to form families contributes to lower U.S. birthrate

Family |  U.S. births are at their lowest since the 1920s, according to a study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. According to Don Feder, communications…

A page from the Toys R Us catalog in Sweden

A truck for Trisha and a dolly for Donald

Culture |  Christmas shopping for the kids just got a whole lot more complicated for parents in Sweden, where Top-Toy Group, a licensee of the Toys R Us brand, decided…

Awareness or enticement?

Awareness or enticement?

Parenting |  Last week I made the mistake of Facebooking my surprise at learning that the kindergartners at the elementary school across the street were participating in…

Raising super-Christians

Raising super-Christians

Parenting |  After teaching college for a few years I’ve realized two things: (1) how young adults sincerely want to make their parents proud, and (2) how parents…

California state Sen. Ted Lieu

Family intrusion

Homosexuality |  Two groups will challenge the constitutionality of a new California law banning minors from receiving reparative therapy

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