Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
A few months ago, I did a post about out-of-control children who seemed to be the product, not of biological pathology, but of boundary-free parenting. A couple of weeks ago, I did a post about parents who were afraid to exert control over their children because of their fear of
Continue readingI received this email from a friend, who thought that you all might have some useful input about a recent policy change at her daughter’s elementary school: Apparently a boy got hit in the head playing football at recess and hurt himself, though I don’t know in what way or
Continue readingI have one more school children post I want to do today, and this one is scary and depressing. It’s also not new, because it’s an issue that’s been around and about which I’ve blogged before: the possible terrorist threat to our children. Danny Lemieux gave me the heads up
Continue reading“I’m not a child development expert, but I play one on TV.” Wait. That’s not what I meant to say, but it just sounded so silly, I had to. What I really meant to say is that I’m not a child development expert, but I hang around with a whole
Continue readingI was perusing the “site plan” for my kids’ school, a document that spells out what the school’s goals are regarding education and the means by which they put those goals into effect. After deciphering the usual cant and education babble, I learned that our school wants to teach our
Continue readingSchools constantly complain about the pressure to meet actual academic standards, but they somehow always find time to beat the children over the heads with social or political issues — and always from the point of view of the Lefter side of the political spectrum: Third-grade teacher Debbie Robles made
Continue readingOne of Hitler’s most evilly inspired ideas was to go after the young people, and turn them into spies in their own parents’ homes. It’s so much easier to grab children’s minds, and parents never assume that, not only are their children watching them, they can be co-opted, innocently, into
Continue readingI’m still irked about the middle school in Portland, Maine that had the bright idea to bypass parents and give birth control pills to little girls. My irritation goes beyond the fact that the school district is using a very small number of pregnancies and bad situations to usurp parents’
Continue readingI’m about to write something provocative, so feel free to beat me up on it, provided that you do so politely. It’s about the increasing prevalence of Asbergers diagnoses amongst children. Asbergers is a rather amorphous condition, although it’s considered to be part of the Autism spectrum. Here’s the definition
Continue readingThe global warming indoctrination is working — up to a point. In common with the school children in this John Stossel video, my children are worried about a climate change Armageddon and are hostile to Western culture because “it’s all our fault.” It’s a common topic of conversation. Hot days,
Continue readingOld friends of mine used to joke that, once their children become teenagers, they’d start smoking so that their children could rebel against them by not smoking. They might have been on to something. In my home, where Mr. Bookworm likes TV very much, what I often hear from the
Continue readingI used to have the worst children in the world. Truly, I did. And I knew that they were the worst children in the world because the evidence came out of my own mouth. I had to criticize them constantly because of the way they ignored instructions, the way they
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