Remember those questions I told you to have your kid think about in the last post? One of them was, “Can you find any reason other than climate change that can cause the oceans to warm?” How successful were they? This post may seem a little “nerdy,” but it will give your kids some ammunition if…
Tag: education
WIT AND WISDOM AND CRT
I felt like I’d written enough about CRT and believed you probably felt the same way. But it reared its ugly head again this morning when I heard Dr. Carol Swain say that it is still being taught in schools. Not only is it being taught, she says, but they claim that it is real. They…
ARIZONA STARTS WITH AN A+
We’ve looked at how many public schools are letting your kids down in a number of ways. Whether it is how they teach the basic subjects, or what they teach in addition to or instead of the basic subjects, parents are concerned about what kids are learning—or not learning. At least one state put its…
POISONING OUR KIDS
It seems children have always been attracted to substances that are not good for them. Why? One reason is they see their parents and other adults taking or using them. An obvious example of that is smoking cigarettes. It’s a kind of reflexive “monkey see, monkey do.” I remember a story of a little two-year-old…
GOD, FAMILY AND COUNTRY: UNREASONABLE PRIORITIES?
Why would anyone mind if you taught your kids that God comes first in our lives, then our love for and devotion to our family, and then allegiance to our country? It’s a question worth thinking about because there are some who don’t want your kids to learn to have those priorities. In the minds…
IS IT OKAY FOR A GHOSTWRITER TO DO YOUR KID’S HOMEWORK?
I’ll ask the question again. Is it okay for a ghostwriter to do your kid’s homework? I can hear you shouting the answer back at me right now: “Of course NOT!” Well, the idea that it could be possible, if not acceptable, may not be far in the future. What can artificial intelligence actually do?…
CHRISTIANITY: DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS?
Is Christianity dying a slow death—death by a thousand cuts? The words on the front cover of my book Who’s Got Dibs on Your Kids? suggest that is precisely what is happening. Those words are: “How the Pied Pipers of our society are leading your kids on a path away from you, your beliefs, your…
CALIFORNIA PUTS MORATORIUM ON CHARGING EVs – Climate Part 2
We are often admonished to reduce our carbon footprint. If we don’t, we are told, the earth will end in seven? eight? ten years?! One of the much-touted routes to carbon reduction is switching from cars with combustion engines to electric vehicles. This is not a new idea. Back in 1903, Thomas Edison was trying…
IT’S BACK-TO-SCHOOL-TIME—AGAIN
As you check to see what is still good enough after one child has outgrown it to pass it down to the next in line, as you check the sales on crayons, rulers, notebooks, and lunchboxes, as you realize how much they have grown in what seems such a little time, there is something else…
HOW TO FALL AND HOW TO STAND
In my church’s Bible study last Sunday, a quote from G. K. Chesterton gave us focus. It was, “There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.” As I was a fan of Chesterton’s Father Brown Mysteries, just for fun I went to the good old reference book,…