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Whiny Teens Leave Girl Scouts Over “Pro-Abortion” Stance

Two teen girls from Texas have left the Girl Scouts after—gasp—learning that the organization has, in their words, a “pro-abortion mindset.” They’ve also started a […]

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College Lectures Are Meant to Be Boring

My daughter is a college freshman. She thinks she’s all grown up. I think she’s still in diapers. I’m sure her sensibilities and capabilities fall […]

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Are Today’s Kids Narcissists?

Yesterday’s New York Times reported on a fascinating study of song lyrics by University of Kentucky psychologist Nathan DeWall. DeWall’s paper on the study, which […]

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Video Games: Mind-Warping or Body-Shaping?

There was an ominous snapshot in this week’s Inquirer depicting two special forces operatives—gas masks on, guns drawn, fingers on triggers as they stalked their […]

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Is North Face Behind Jacket Roulette?

I just returned from visiting my college freshman daughter in Boston. She attends Boston University and called home recently asking for some mommy time. Worried […]

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College Kids More Stressed Than Ever

Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven’t fallen asleep yet. Anonymous The best and the brightest are screaming and sleep […]

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Now, Why Teens Are Stupid

Scientists at Temple University recently took on the task of figuring out the “why” behind what we all know is a given: Teenagers will do […]

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Mean Girls Bully Just as Badly

Seconds into the raw footage of a group of teenage boys beating 13-year-old Nadin Khoury, it’s clear the bullies mean business. Between kicking Nadin and […]

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College Freshmen Are Just Whining

Don’t college freshmen seem like they have it all? Pseudo-independence financially and otherwise with the cushion of Mom and Dad’s checkbook back home, relatively easy […]

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Breaking: Kids Lie About Sex!

When kids get to be a certain age, their parents start to wonder whether they—well, you know.  Parents also start to talk to one another […]

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Tats for Tots

The way Baltimore mom Michele Welsh tells it, she and her husband took their three kids to an amusement park over Labor Day weekend but […]

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Barbie Is No Superhero

My wife Dawn returned home from a shopping trip last week to tell me “Sometimes I am so happy that we don’t have a little […]

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16 and Pregnant: Why Don’t American Girls Stop Getting Knocked Up?

The names are like sad jewels on a necklace that keeps getting longer — the names of my kids’ friends who are having babies. Each […]

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The Homogenized Main Line Teenager

I was sitting at a red light close to a Main Line high school that was letting out for the day recently, and I had […]

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I Forced My Kid to Ride Her Bike

Remember the good old days when kids went out to play all day and rode their bikes to the park? Yeah, me too. What the […]