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The Push for Equity in Education Hurts Vulnerable Children the Most

Implementation of newly popular equity policies will hinder the learning of many students before those policies are weakened or reversed.

Russell T. Warne

25 Nov 2021 · 13 min read

Injecting Anti-Racism Activism Into the Adoption Process Won’t Help Black Children

More than anything, it was a deep sensitivity to our kids’ unique life histories as individuals—rather than to generalized considerations of group identity—that enabled us to grow together as a newly blended family.

David K. Ryden

23 Oct 2021 · 13 min read

When Children Protest, Adults Should Tell them the Truth

The climate debate is a complicated one. It requires the careful weighing of interests and trade-offs, not the uncompromising fanaticism of an absolutist.

Kathrine Jebsen Moore

21 Mar 2019 · 8 min read

Correcting ‘Youth’s Eternal Temptation to Arrogance’—One Bedtime Story at a Time

Children get a wider perspective when they’re tugged out of the here and now for a little while each day. In an enchanted hour, we can read them stories of the real and imagined past.

Meghan Cox Gurdon

13 Jan 2019 · 9 min read

In Praise of Boredom, Again

Brodsky said that when confronted by boredom we should “exact full look at the worst.” He said “When hit by boredom, go for it. Let yourself be crushed by it; submerge, hit bottom.”

Caroline ffiske

11 Jan 2019 · 6 min read

Burying a Child

Societies the world over have had to adapt to high rates of infant and child mortality, developing beliefs and social traditions to mitigate the impact of seeing so many of their offspring die

William Buckner

27 Jul 2018 · 10 min read