So, like, kids don’t speak real English anymore?
Bookworm on Jan 23 2012 | Filed under: Children
I’m surrounded by tweens and teens, so I can attest to this poem’s accuracy: Hat tip: The New Editor
Tag Archive 'Teenagers'
Which agenda really serves women’s rights?
Bookworm on Jan 10 2012 | Filed under: Abortion
Republican voters, struggling to decide which candidate will best handle the myriad problems facing America under the Obama regime — problems that include a stagnant economy, a collapsing Europe, a boiling Middle East, etc. — were treated to a New Hampshire debate that focused on . . . birth control. A post-debate NYT op-ed establishes [...]
A tour de force post taking us from Google interviews, to self-esteem, to dancing men *UPDATED*
Bookworm on Dec 29 2011 | Filed under: Military
I have been brooding about an article I read the other day, one that describes the brave new world of job interviews. According to the Wall Street Journal, many companies, having recognized that traditional interview techniques aren’t necessarily a good way to determine whether someone is right for the job, have moved on to brain [...]
Earning the Mom medal
Bookworm on Nov 16 2011 | Filed under: Children, Parenting
Every time I return from a Navy League or Navy event, I lament the fact that we in the civilian world do not get to wear our honors and accomplishments on our hats, shoulders, chests or sleeves. The fact that there is no official boasting mechanism in my suburban Mom life, though, doesn’t mean I [...]
Pop culture enmity to teenage self-control
Bookworm on Oct 26 2010 | Filed under: Children
This is the kind of thing my kids have to suffer through:
The man I want my daughter to date *UPDATED*
Bookworm on Feb 03 2010 | Filed under: Children, Sex
This is an entirely hypothetical scenario, because my daughter is only 12, and I’m not planning on her dating for at least another fifteen or twenty years, if not more. However, the sad fact is that, contrary to my entirely reasonable wishes, the dating scene is going to start in three or four years — [...]
My take on the youth sex culture in America *UPDATED*
Bookworm on Mar 12 2008 | Filed under: Sex
Soccer Dad, who has a wonderful blog here, sent me a nice email agreeing with the points I made in my Biology will have its way post. He added an anecdote about Planned Parenthood: “The archdiocese of Baltimore announced that it would pay for counseling for women who had undergone abortions. Planned Parenthood objected. It [...]
Biology will have its way *UPDATE*
Bookworm on Mar 11 2008 | Filed under: Feminism, Sex
One of the things the feminists insist upon is absolute equality, whether that means depriving men of the opportunity to participate in college sports simply because there aren’t enough women to create parity, something that’s now being done in the sciences as well; or allowing women to engage in sexual activity as if they were [...]
