From the category archives:

Character

Raising Thinking Citizens

As a gentle snow fell on New York City this past New Year’s Eve day, I had the good fortune of attending a US naturalization ceremony at the Federal Courthouse in Manhattan. While observing the faces of the new citizens and their friends and family who came to share this special day with them, a [...]

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It’s Time to Fall Out of Love With Cheap

Lately every time I sit down to post I feel like Tippi Hedren in The Birds, frantically swatting away at all the competing topics flying around my head.  But today, there is a very large, very insistent bird on my shoulder with its talons dug in, that’s been pecking away at my cranium like a [...]

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Tips From “Food Rules” – Michael Pollan’s New Book & Going Gluten-Free

Nutritionist, activist and author, Michael Pollan, has a new book which distills many of the ideas presented his earlier works, “The Omnivoire’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals” and “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto,” into simple food rules. These are wonderful rules to teach to children of any age. Whether kids follow [...]

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I Am An iPhone Addict (please help!)

My wife and I are trying. She has her own fashion business and I work from home. As much as I hate to admit it, my iPhone is usually on the floor next to me while playing with our daughter. I check it at red lights while driving. It’s on the table at restaurants and [...]

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Thinking About Speaking | Detriments of Gossip And It’s Permanence On The Web

After reading a piece about the effect of gossip on our culture and the way that it affects the way our children speak and interact, this article suggests that we teach our children to ask three questions before we say something to or about someone else: 1) Is it kind? 2) Is it True? 3) [...]

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Branded Kids and the Diabolical Depot

I’ve been reading a lot about advertising’s effect on kids and the general over-prominence of big corporate brands in our culture lately, as I’ve cruised through Packaging Girlhood and Consuming Kids (Red Pill Parent bibles, by the way: and Packaging Boyhood, by the same authors, was just published in October).  But I had an opportunity [...]

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Are you a Red Pill Parent?

Welcome to The Red Pill Parents.  We are Red Pill Mama and Red Pill Papa, both parents with young children, who are in the process of waking up and looking very, very closely at everything “coming at” our kids.  If you haven’t figured it out already, the term “red pill” comes from The Matrix.  This [...]

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