As most any parent can tell you, sooner or later the words you hear coming out of your mouth, are the same ones your parents used.
That is to say: We parent the way we were parented. We may think we’re more enlightened as parents, but we’re not, and a study out today confirms that in at least one area of parenting: spanking.
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It’s Friday on public radio, so this is a test of your tear duct system again. Here’s a story of the collision between the dreams we have and the reality we have to accept. Read more →
Millennials, you’ve got a problem ahead. Two-thirds of you say you expect your partner will handle the child-rearing in your family, according to a recent survey from Harvard. About half of the Millennial women expect bringing up baby will fall on them. See the math, there? Read more →
If you had any kind of childhood at all , and you’re over the age of 50, you will — within the next three paragraphs — be thinking about the time your parents left you to your own devices to find your way back home.
You just didn’t know at the time that you were a ‘free range kid.’ Read more →
Former Shattuck St. Mary’s hockey player Jack Johnson is tapped out, and mom and dad are to blame, the Columbus Dispatch newspaper says today.
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When Linda Robertson’s son revealed to her that he was gay, she and her husband told their son ‘he had to choose between Jesus and his sexuality. ‘ He did. And died.
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Among life’s many mysteries is this one: Why do some people persist in the face of adversity and some others don’t?
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It’ll be quite awhile before the air transportation system is back to normal following today’s fire in the Chicago air traffic control center in Aurora, Ill. Read more →
It’s been almost 25 years since Ryan White died. He was the Kokomo, Indiana teen who was shunned by his school — expelled from middle school — after it was revealed he became infected with HIV from a contaminated blood treatment. We’ve come a long way from our ignorance then. Read more →
Marion Coombs gave up her son right after he was born. Later, she was told he was dead. He wasn’t. Read more →
Parents judged unfit have the burden of proving that they are capable of parenting children, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled today in a divided decision. Read more →
Daniel Ashley Pierce, 19, made $93,000 in the last few weeks by getting thrown out of his home by his mother. He’s gay. The Georgia teenager posted a YouTube video late last month of his mother telling him to “get out” earlier this week on GoFundMe, in order to raise money for living expenses. (Obscenities Read more →
We were driving home from our visit back East on Saturday when we came across an SUV full of a mostly enthusiastic — we guess — Illinois family at the Tomah, Wis., rest stop, heading for one of the great passages of life: the moment when you’re dropped off to be on your own in Read more →
Cindy Bjerke of Fargo was upset at her 18-year-old daughter’s disrespectful behavior, WDAZ-TV reports, so she sold the Katy Perry tickets she’d purchased for her daughter on the Fargo-Moorhead Garage Sale page. Read more →
The Atlantic gives new life to the story of a Mormon born a boy but becoming a girl. Read more →
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