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Young Student Gets Highest Test Score In The Country: See...
Our dominant model for public education is still basically rooted in the industrial revolution that spawned it. At that time workplaces valued punctuality, regularity, attention, and silence above all else. Over 40 years ago, Fortune 500...
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My Teen Used To Worship Me Now She Barely Acknowledges Me
A grandmother told her daughter she was supposed to be in her "Golden Years," but after living a long life, she now believed her Golden Years had been as a young mother. She explained it was a time when her children were young...
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Malicious Practice Of Cyberbullying May Have Your Child...
If your children are anything like mine, they’re constantly face down, gazing into the bright, glowing screen of a phone, a laptop, a computer, or whatever the latest device may be. They’re obsessed with an increasing number...
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Do My Teens Problems Mean That I Am A Failure
Every parent who has seen a child struggle knows the feeling of "parental" failure. What did I do wrong? What could I have done differently? Is my child at risk because of me? As...
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The Government Shutdown As An Analogy For America's...
It's no secret that politics in America have gotten so partisan that it's next to impossible to get the country's two main parties to agree to work together on any substantial policy action. What's less acknowledged is that millions...
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Selfie-Obsession Teens Raised On The Internet
Years ago, the invention of 1-hour photos was a technological phenomenon. Sometimes you would take several quick photos just to use up the last few shots on your camera so that you could finish the roll and get your vacation photos in...
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5 Reasons Why There Is No Ibuprofen Like Drug for Depression
If you ask me, Ibuprofen is a miracle drug. I was forced to go for a while without dental insurance at a certain time in my life, and I had a persistent toothache. The only thing that seemed to help was ibuprofen. I'd pop two Advils and...
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Are There Any Simple Steps that Can Be Taken to End Youth...
One of the greatest challenges we face in America is figuring out how to stop violence; stopping violent crimes perpetrated by teenagers has to be the first step. For parents, the long-term life experience of...
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Can One Yale Professor Help All Parents Become Emotional...
"Follow your heart," is an often repeated phrase used when giving advice to someone. It is an emotional response that humans believe is important enough to base some of our most life-changing decisions on. We place so much...
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