Category: Parenting

Hana Marano argues that cell phones “weaken the power of place-based institutions to penetrate the minds of the young and to affect their behavior.”

Regardless of where you fall on the spectrum of financial means, it is important for your son or daughter to have some “skin in the game.”

“…To carry the keys of the world’s library in your pocket…”

“Man is the only animal in the forest that bullshits himself.”

My return to the classroom has triggered a fair amount of déjà vu. I’ll start talking about something and then, all of a sudden, these old teaching riffs start flooding into my head.

There is another common parental utterance that also often hits me as fingernails-on-a-chalkboard.  The setting […]

In Too Much of a Good Thing: Raising Children of Character in an Indulgent Age […]

Entering my third decade as a high school teacher in the late 90s, I couldn’t […]

As a high school teacher of U.S. History and government, I would seek to personalize […]

5 Rules for… Parents Rule No. 1 – Make Them Pay for Something Regardless of […]