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Living Memory – A Mother’s Day Reflection

I've published pieces from time to time by my friend Mark Goldblatt, a professor and...

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Should We Save Our Children From the Flames of Hell?

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July 02, 2013

The Idol of Love

Mom and Dad are great parents. It is not Mother’s Day or Father’s Day, but...

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March 21, 2013

The Bible Miniseries – the Computer Game

Brent Dusing is the founder and CEO of Lightside Games, which seeks to make computer...

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Parenting in an Age of Affluence

I've been fortunate to come to know a lot of extraordinary people. One of them...

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An Open Letter to Anyone Who Wants to Marry My Daughter

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December 18, 2012

Sandy Hook and the Revolt Against Death

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The Parent Rap

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A Must-Read Testimony

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September 21, 2012

Yes, Your Child is Difficult

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July 12, 2012

Fathers, Don’t Abort Your Daughters

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June 14, 2012

Special Father’s Day Link

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When Your Heart Hangs by a Thread

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A Love Letter to Mitt – Why Candidate Marriage Matters

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October 26, 2011

When Your Daughter Thinks You’re a Stripper

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On My Daughter's Birthday: Why We Have Children

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(Worst) Father of the Year Award

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These French Never Surrender

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Pressing Children to Achieve — For Their Sake or For Our Own?

An interesting story appeared today's New York Daily News about a 13-year-old child prodigy who...

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May 30, 2011

Everyday Transcendence: The 99 Balloons of Eliot Hartman Mooney

Art, profundity, transcendence, these things come in many forms. The entries so far in my...

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Tiger Moms and Black Swans

A couple months ago I began a series inspired by Amy Chua’s "Why Chinese Mothers...

January 2011

January 14, 2011

Crouching Tiger Mom, Hidden Western Dad: Why Chinese Mothers are Average, Part 3.1

And here we are at the end of all things. No, wait a minute, it's...

January 13, 2011

Why Chinese Mothers Are Average, Part 2: What Tiger Moms Can Teach Us

Rarely do we find race-tinged superiority claims displayed as garishly and unapologetically as Amy Chua's...

January 12, 2011

Why Chinese Mothers Are Average, Part 1

For the record, the title of this post deliberately does not say that Chinese mothers...

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