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Are Americans So Self-Righteous We No Longer Consider the Greater Good? Mar. 31, 2023
"We're not going to fix it," Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., said following the shooting at The Covenant... Read More
Traveling Through Time to Leave Hauntings in Broad Daylight Feb. 26, 2023
It was something about the curve of her cheek to her chin in the side-view mirrors. I mentally spoke... Read More
Marie Kondo, Welcome to the World of Go With the Flow Feb. 17, 2023
Marie Kondo recently said that she's "kind of given up," and I'm so thrilled for her. Welcome to the... Read More
Culture is What You Make It Feb. 12, 2023
At dinner, he blurted out that he'd be going to karate. After finishing a bite, I told him it was ta... Read More
From a Painful Childhood to a Dream Come True Feb. 07, 2023
Dear Annie: I lived a parallel childhood with the pain of an extremely abusive mother and a father w... Read More
To Foster a Love of Reading, We Have to Give Children the Freedom of Choice Jan. 27, 2023
It was during my son's kindergarten readiness screening that his teacher discovered his love of read... Read More
Why Your Child's Personality Should Determine How You Parent Jan. 20, 2023
I got a note from my son's teacher saying he was not "meeting classroom expectations." He's in the f... Read More
Back to School, Back to the Everyday Miseries of Childhood Sep. 03, 2022
The kids are back to school. I know that because today, for the first time in three months, I worked... Read More
Wisdom and Grace Emerge From Troubled Childhood Aug. 29, 2022
Dear Annie: I was raised during an economic depression. I had a sister who was two years older than ... Read More
The State Fair Reminded Me of How Much I Love 4-H Aug. 26, 2022
My son is in the first grade. It's that age of sampling different things and figuring out what inter... Read More
The Strangest Thing About 'Stranger Things' Aug. 04, 2022
If you watch "Stranger Things" with your kids, there's a good chance they spend some of the time cry... Read More
Out Among the Lights With Petula Clark May. 27, 2022
Things I liked when I was in fourth grade: My dog. He was a big boxer dog named Joey. He had big bla... Read More
Sisters Won't Move On From Childhood Trauma Feb. 22, 2022
Dear Annie: I have always looked up to my older sisters. They are twins and six years older than me.... Read More
Sulky Sister Wants to Visit Feb. 03, 2022
Dear Annie: My sister and I are in our sixties. We are less than a year apart in age but have never ... Read More
Age Limits on Childhood Don't Make Sense Jul. 15, 2021
A few years back, after the first "Free Range Parenting" law passed in Utah — a great day for ... Read More
It's So Nice Out -- Stay Inside! Jul. 01, 2021
Hundreds of thousands of people are weighing in on the factors keeping kids — and especially t... Read More
Politics Should Be Sacred Work May. 20, 2021
When I was growing up, my mother would constantly tell me to mind my attitude. This most often occur... Read More
Aren't You Glad You Aren't a Kid Today? May. 06, 2021
A survey of almost 2,000 parents of kids ages 5 to 11 in Britain found that most parents aren't lett... Read More
The Case of the Missing Childhood Apr. 15, 2021
Harriet the Spy. Encyclopedia Brown. Meg and brother Charles Wallace, Ramona, Beezus, Pippi and that... Read More
My First and Only Love? Mar. 04, 2021
DR. WALLACE: This one particular boy and I have been best friends for 10 years now, and we live in t... Read More
