To My Daughter, Turning Ten

by Paul Beston

Paul Beston muses on the joys of watching his daughter grow up.  Continue Reading »

13 Sep 2017

“I Just Want Her To Be Happy”

by Leonard Sax

It is no use letting kids do whatever they desire unless you have first educated their desire. Continue Reading »

5 May 2017

Surveying Sex, Denying Childhood

by Carl R. Trueman

A survey administered by California schools makes children disclose their sexual behavior and marginalizes mom and dad. Continue Reading »

6 Apr 2017

Index Verborum Prohibitorum

by Mark Bauerlein

The idiom of adolescence must go. Continue Reading »

21 Feb 2017

Time for Parents to Resist Transgender Activism

by Emily Zinos

With public schools fast becoming incubators of gender ideology, parents need to cast off their fears of entering the fray. Continue Reading »

20 Jan 2017

Violent Lessons

by Matthew Schmitz

Children are not exposed to enough violence. Yes, I know the grim statistics, how a child who enters middle school has already witnessed 8,000 murders and 100,000 other violent acts on TV. As he and his friends enter adolescence, they take up first-person shooter video games. In college, he becomes . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2017

A Christmas Eve Carol

by Andrew Klavan

Mostly, I grew up a Jew among other Jews. So how had Jesus entered my imagination? How had he come to occupy its core? It took an effort of memory, but I reached back to the first time I had truly noticed him. It had happened on a Christmas Eve. Continue Reading »

23 Dec 2016

Junior Varsity Angel Wrestling Team

by Eve Tushnet

The film is in large part about the failures and sins of American church culture—but you can also tell that Cone is honoring the place and community that shaped him. Continue Reading »

30 Nov 2016

Childhood, Guardian-Style

by Carl R. Trueman

An article in The Guardian inadvertently indicates that the problems of our current political culture are deeply embedded in patterns of modern parenting. Continue Reading »

4 Nov 2016

Mister Bossy

by Brian Doyle

I think that was the first time in my entire life that I understood that sin was real. Continue Reading »

27 Oct 2016