Hi Friends – be sure to tune in today to “It Takes a Parent” 2:00 CT, AM1160/WYLL Chicago. I am interviewing Michael Farris, President of the new parents rights group ParentalRights.Org (See my blogroll for a link.) I’m a skeptic when it comes to amending the Constitution for almost anything, but he lays out a great and very reasoned case for why we need a Constitutional amendment to protect parents’ rights which are now implicitly, but not explicitly, laid out in the law.One big concern? A push from the Left after the next election to adopt the International Convention on the Rights of the Child.

So I hope you’ll tune in, or afterward get a podcast here or on NationalReview.com

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Hi friends – here’s a really interesting piece in today’s Wall Street Journal. It talks about family friendly cities, but it has a great deal in the piece about what today’s family looks like – and it’s not all discouraging! You’ll want to take a look.

The Rise of Family Friendly Cities

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Cheers – Betsy

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This week’s column and a little back story. . .

I was shocked when a dear friend told me of her experience chaperoning a high school dance in the area in October. She described back-to-front dancing between the kids in the darkened gym which was overtly sexual. She said it was foreplay more than dancing. But I didn’t know until this week that such dancing is a nationwide phenomena – and a real problem.

That’s not really the shocking part. What’s shocking is that, as the Wall Street Journal described it, it’s not that parents in the one Texas town the Journal focused on don’t know about the sexually provocative dancing that their kids are engaging it at age 16. It’s that there is a strong faction of parents who oppose any effort by the adults to stop it.

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Hi friends – from my home to yours, wishing you a Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving!Today’s radio show is a rebroadcast of the show on which I talked with Dr. Leland Ryken about the true legacy of the Puritans. To listen to it just click on the link below.

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Hi friends – here’s something you will definitely want to watch and share with family over the holidays. A mom singing all the things. . . moms say (in about 3 minutes).  It’s hilarious and It’s on Youtube.com. Enjoy!

Video

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A little backstory on this week’s column. . .

I get so frustrated with the undeserved bad reputation the Puritans have in today’s culture. Of course I’m most frustrated by the bad reputation they have even in Christian circles! They were flawed sinners like anyone else. But they gave our country and our culture and their Christian progeny a powerful legacy.

As we approach Thanksgiving, I wanted to take a shot at setting the record straight.

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Hi friends. Today I’ll be talking to Charlie Sykes, author of “50 Things Your Kids Won’t Learn in School.” He wrote a really great piece recently for the Wall Street Journal about an overprotective culture that seems to want to wrap our kids in bubblewrap – and what that’s costing our children. We’ll look at his piece called “Adult Supervision” – in which Sykes recounts that ABC News recently revealed that – gasp! – many playgrounds have germs. (ABC should see my kitchen. Actually – they shouldn’t.

You’ll definitely want to tune in!

You can listen on AM1160/Chicago at 2:00 central time, or streaming live at WYLL.com, or as always, by Friday you can listen to the show here on my blog on get it at NationalReview.com

Thanks for tuning in.

Betsy

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Hi friends – here’s more from the New York Times on ADD/ADHD. Is it possible that at least one of the reasons for it is that we push our kids so hard so early in school that we no longer allow for old fashioned immaturity? Is it likely that many kids will outgrow it in high school? (Which even if true doesn’t negate dealing with it effectively in the early grades.) The topic remains controversial, but I think you’ll find the article really interesting.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/health/13kids.html?ei=5070&en=6456fc1ae81a2682&ex=1195707600&pagewanted=print

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Hi friends – here’s a really good piece in Today’s Wall Street Journal on teaching kids how to handle money.

Love and Money

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This week’s column and a little backstory. . .

Hi friends – well, this week’s column has the backstory right in the middle of the column itself!

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