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I've studied over 200 kids—parents who raise emotionally intelligent kids do 7 things early on

Child psychologist Reem Raouda, who has studied more than 200 child-parent relationships, says those who raise the emotionally intelligent kids do seven key things.

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    Jonathan Haidt Wins the Fight Against Smartphones in Schools

    Haidt's bestselling book "The Anxious Generation" has freed schools from smartphones, and gained fans from Barack Obama to Bill Gates to Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

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      Pennsylvania Court Rules in Favor of Parental Right to Opt Out of Gender-Identity Lessons | National Review

      'A teacher instructing first-graders and reading books to show that their parents’ beliefs about their children’s gender identity may be wrong directly repudiates parental authority.'

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      More Young Men Than Women Want Children Someday - Pew Research Center

      Among adults ages 18 to 34, 69% of those who have never been married say they want to get married one day.

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        Gen Z Has Had Enough Therapy - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

        The main culprit for their malaise and general unwillingness to take risks, according to Abigail Shrier in her new book Bad Therapy,

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          Ireland Votes to Save the Family - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

          In two national referenda, the demonstrated a preference for the traditional family and women over DEI and wokeness. Who knew?

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          Fentanyl Is Killing American Kids. Most Don’t Even Know They’re Taking It. | The Free Press

          Every week, more than a dozen U.S. teenagers lose their lives to fentanyl. James Fishback reports on the unwitting victims—and the parents they’ve left behind.

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          Teen Vogue Glamorizes Self-Harm | National Review

          Surgical amputation as a response to gender dysphoria isn’t a cure to self-harm but rather an extreme manifestation of it.

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          Irish parents take action on smartphones amid soaring concerns over children's mental health | Fox News

          The parents associations at eight elementary schools in the town of Greystones, County Wicklow, have agreed to enforce a ban on smartphones for all students until middle school.

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          To Cure Loneliness, Reject The Sexual Revolution

          Democrats are finally noticing our society is decaying but are unwilling to admit their policies have anything to do with it.

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          Who’s Afraid of Moms for Liberty?

          A growing cadre of angry mothers is taking over school boards and winning influence as GOP kingmakers. Why are they being called a ‘hate group’?

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          Hail to the Brave Parents Who've Had Enough of the Sexualization of Children

          Contrary to popular belief, not everyone in this country is meekly submitting to the sexual grooming and indoctrination of schoolchildren. Yesterday in Glendale, CA,...

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          It's Up To Moms To Crush Target

          Dudes absolutely crushed Bud Light. Now it's time for the ladies to do their part to stop the woke corporate takeover.

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          The Parents Saying No to Smartphones

          ‘How you help them learn to be present, in a task or with a relationship, is one of the top challenges of our generation. Part of that is going to be saying no.’

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          Teach Your Children Well — About Communism - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

          So, educating students about the dangers of communism is racist? Who knew? Virginia Republicans recently introduced House Bill 1816 which would have declared November 7 — the anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution — Victims of Communism Day. The

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          Disney Has It All - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

          Gone are the days when parents could turn on the Disney Channel or a Disney movie and walk away. A new 50-minute documentary called Walt’s Disenchanted Kingdom exposes the radical agenda pushed by Disney to indoctrinate America’s children. “Once upo

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          How to Protect Kids from the Dark Side of Technology | PragerU

          As much as parents want to protect their children from the dangers of social media, sexting, and pornography, in reality, it is not practical to keep them…

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            Pro-Family Conservatives Must First Be Pro-Men

            Republicans interested in crafting pro-family policy must focus on the well-being of America’s boys and men.

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            If Your Kids Are Unhappy, Take Them To Church

            A huge burden could be lifted from our children if they had a place to go each week that offered them grace and refuge from anxiety.

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              How I Lovingly Guided My Child Away From Transgenderism

              I had to accept my limits, but that didn’t mean I was helpless. Parents are still the most important influence on their kids.

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              Listen to Your Elders, Not the Experts - The American Conservative

              You don't need a peer-reviewed study to know it's a bad idea to give a five-year-old an iPhone.

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                Billboard Chris: Hero Dad - The American Conservative

                Activist defending kids from the Trans-Industrial Complex has his arm badly broken by Antifa -- but he's not backing down

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                The Coming Storm Over Trans 'Tuskegee Experiment' - The American Conservative

                Angry dad: 'There is no way to cross that chasm to find forgiveness for the people who knowingly turned the last 50 years of my daughter's life into a living nightmare'

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                Why We Need The 'Protect Children's Innocence' Bill

                Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's bill gives us the chance to defend children from leftists pushing a radically sexualized agenda on minors.

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                Big Tech or Little Kids? - The American Conservative

                Louisiana is one state implementing technology restrictions for minors.

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                  Telling Kids To Hate Their Biology Might Very Well Be Killing Them

                  Might the increase in 'gender dysphoria' among American youth be related to broader societal dysphoria felt by an entire generation of kids?

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                  Venezuela: Vivi’s Life under Socialism | PragerU

                  Socialism nearly destroyed the beautiful nation of Venezuela. In this episode of Around the World (based on PragerU Kids magazines for advanced readers),…

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                  Smartphones Are Killing Kids - The American Conservative

                  Preventing this attachment to screens is the most effective response to the teen mental health crisis. No one wants to acknowledge this.

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                  Don’t Buy into SEL! › American Greatness

                  As a longtime teacher, I have seen firsthand that education is a fad-filled field. Culturally responsive education, inventive spelling, new math, experiential learning, balanced literacy, etc.

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                  How Public Schools Are Sneaking Woke Ideology To Your Kids Behind Your Back — And In Your Own Home

                  "It found a way to smuggle propaganda into your home right behind your back, from its perch in our schools."

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                  Woke Books From Scholastic Press Are Polluting Our Schools and Homes

                  The fight against schools indoctrinating kids with critical race theory and radical gender theory has become very public and was even consequential in the Virginia gubernatorial election last year, bu...

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                  The Graphic, Obscene Material Sparking a Parental Revolt in the Schools | National Review

                  The campaign against CRT in the schools is expanding to challenge sexual content being provided to kids. To understand this debate, one must see that content.

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                  America's Lost Boys and Me

                  I suspect I’m the only student at Cambridge University who lived out of garbage bags as a child. Here’s why I didn’t live the life I was meant to.

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                  Time-Tested Children’s Literature | National Review

                  A review of Before Austen Comes Aesop: The Children’s Great Books and How to Experience Them, by Cheri Blomquist.

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                  Gender Ideology Run Amok

                  This is a movement that would turn our children against themselves because its advocates know there is no greater harm—no quicker way to bring America to its knees—than by driving our children to do themselves irreversible damage.

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                      What’s Inside The Gender-Bending Picture Books In Your Kids' Library

                      LGBT activists are aggressively presenting their ideology in books across the children’s genres: picture books, easy readers, and biographies.

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                      Why Girls Become Boys

                      Ten years ago, it was unlikely that you knew someone who identified as transgender. Today, it’s unlikely that you don’t know someone who identifies as transgender. This is especially true of teenage girls. Abigail Shrier analyzes this disturbing trend

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                      OPINION: A Mom's Research (Part 3): Who Are the Real Racists?

                      Commentary One day, my 17-year-old daughter showed me a Facebook post that said 74.5 percent of hate crimes ...

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                        About the Miseducation of America’s Elites | The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

                        Bari Weiss writes a compelling, must-read piece in City Journal about the indoctrination mills masquerading as educational institutions. Take a few...

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                        Sticks and Stones

                        Is it true that sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can never hurt you? Yes, but only if you choose to not let words hurt you. Comedian Tom Shillue, host of Red Eye on Fox News Channel, explains how growing up in a politically incorrect, rou

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                          I’m a Former Teacher. Here’s How Your Children Are Getting Indoctrinated by Leftist Ideology.

                          Your children are being indoctrinated. The education system designed to teach them how to think critically has been weaponized by the radical left to push an anti-American agenda.  As someone who has worked in education for four years, I have seen firsth

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                            There Is No Apolitical Classroom

                            Do you know what’s going on in your kid’s school? The three R’s – reading, writing, and arithmetic – have taken a back seat to a fourth R. Max Eden, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, explains what that fourth R is, and why it’s so dest

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                              Be Brave

                              Free speech and intellectual freedom are the civil rights issues of our time. Are you ready to defend them? That’s the question that former US Ambassador Nikki Haley poses in this challenging video.

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                                Cartoons Are the Left’s New Weapon to Target Your Kids

                                It’s an open secret that the left dominates the media landscape. It’s impossible to go a day without some actor in the Hollywood Hills tweeting how conservatives are ruining the country, or a journalist penning a story on why all we need is more gover

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                                  Curriculum | 1776 Unites | Uplifting Everyday Americans

                                  1776 Unites educates. The 1776 Unites curriculum offers authentic, inspiring stories from American history that show what is best in our national character and what our freedom makes possible even in

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                                    TikTok: Is There a Chinese 'Trojan Horse' on Your Child's Phone? 

                                    TikTok has quickly become one of the world's most popular apps, but it's also been called a national security threat and President Trump has threatened to ban it. 

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                                      Let's Take Back Our Schools: It’s Time to Change the Way We Educate Our Children

                                      While visiting my daughter and her family in Elmhurst, Pennsylvania, I was standing in a line waiting to ...

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                                        Teen Vogue to Teen Girls: Marx Good, Reagan Bad | The American Spectator

                                        In yet another insidious display of how leftists politicize everything, Teen Vogue is taking a timeout from fashion to teach...

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                                          Why You Should Teach Your Kids to Cook

                                          A conversation with Katie Kimball, founder of online cooking class Kids Cook Real Food.

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                                            Universities are Complicit in 1619 Project’s Disgusting Swindle

                                            The backers of the New York Times’ 1619 Project don’t believe their hate-reading of American history can stand up to examination in the light of day. That’s the only conclusion to be drawn from the…

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                                              4 Ways To Help Your Kids Fight Assimilation Into Cultural Leftism

                                              Parenting well means talking to our kids about difficult subjects long before we’d like to. But choosing not to dooms them to leftist assimilation.

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                                                Rachel Campos-Duffy: We must start young (and be fearless) when teaching our kids about dangers of socialism

                                                Thanks to political superstar, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, socialism is trendier than ever – especially among college students.

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                                                  College Admissions Scandal Shows Parents Misunderstand Their Kids

                                                  Kids rarely become what their parents imagine for them, and it's pointless to think they will. The problem isn't the kids; it's the parents' expectations.

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                                                    My Son's Orientation At Virginia Tech Was Full Of Leftist Propaganda

                                                    Now that I have witnessed college propaganda firsthand, I refuse to ignore the indefensible and discriminatory behavior of the liberal campus bullies.

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                                                      Pediatricians Call Youth Transgenderism 'Child Abuse'

                                                      The American College of Pediatricians attacks as "child abuse" the cultural trend towards transgenderism. Here's why science is on their side.

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                                                        Did Snapchat Promote Pedophilia? Headline Prompts Summer Safety Warning for Parents

                                                        Another headline about the potential dangers of social media is sending a warning to parents: Tech giants like Snapchat and Instagram may not be doing a very good job of protecting children from pedophiles. 

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                                                          Teaching Children Truthfulness

                                                          As parents, we are entrusted with teaching our children moral values and developing their good character. It is ...

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                                                            Beware Silicon Valley’s Gifts to Our Schools | National Review

                                                            After three years, there is no actual proof that all of Apple’s, Google’s, and Microsoft’s infiltration of the classroom is producing actual academic improvement and results.

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                                                                Teen Vogue: Making Commies Sexy

                                                                Fundamental misunderstandings of capitalism are peddled to young people on a daily basis. The most glaring example of this trend was a recent tweet by TeenVogue magazine, advertising their capitalism explainer article to teen girls with the caption, “Ca

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                                                                  The World's Largest Porn Company is Targeting Your Children Through Video Games

                                                                  Porn is tightening its grip on America's youth through two major areas – online gaming and virtual reality.

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                                                                    Cannabis Causes Long-Term Damage to Teen Brains: Study

                                                                    A study has found that cannabis causes long-term damage to the brains of teenagers, and is worse than alcohol

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                                                                      7 Incredible Places to See Fall Foliage in America

                                                                      Book your trip NOW — the colors are only around for another month!

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                                                                        Parents of Boys Should Be Outraged at Democrats

                                                                        Is Christine Ford's and the Democrats' proposed society the kind you want your sons to be forced to navigate as they live their lives?

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                                                                          Why Are Pediatrician Groups Conforming to Transgender Orthodoxy? | National Review

                                                                          Their dismissal of alternative perspectives and research may be irreparably harming children.

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                                                                            'There's Been an Agenda Underfoot for Years:' 'X' Gender on Birth Certificates Falls in Line with LGBTQ Strategy

                                                                            A new bill in New York that is set to allow people who don't identify as male or female to check an X on their birth certificate. The move is the latest in what many call a push to normalize gender confusion.

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                                                                              'Explicit References to Sex in Front of Children': Study Reveals Disturbing Trend in Prime Time TV

                                                                              The Parents Television Council (PTC) has released a new research report exposing what the council calls "a disturbing trend" occurring in prime-time broadcast family comedies.