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Your Family. Your Culture.
The most common theme among parents of young teens lately is that they want to live differently than the culture. Most parents do not want their kids to ingest the current culture of materialism, comparison, busyness, and anxiety. They don’t like what the culture is teaching and demanding. Most parents want to be connected with…
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The Reading Crisis
What and How Are Kids Reading? Some recent observations have caused me to worry about what and how kids are reading, writing, and thinking: 1. The English teachers at our school have been noticing a gradual loss of reading and writing skills in the last five years. While the “above-average” students still exist in good…
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Our Digital Lives
Being a kid is complicated, now more than ever. There are two things that I have seen in the last 24 hours which strongly support this theory. 1. PBS aired another valuable Frontline documentary called “Digital Nation” that I watched last night. It can be viewed in its entirety, or in brief excerpts, online by…
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Facebook Kids
The most common questions that parents have today are all related to Facebook, since every student wants full access and most parents don’t know enough about it. It is a generational thing, like rock and roll was misunderstood by our grandparents. In the same way that our parents monitored our use of the telephone, television,…