For all you moms and dads getting ready to send off your well brought up children to college next fall – watch out. Professor Donna Freitas writes in her new book, “Sex and the Soul,” that you may have missed the part of the campus tour which dealt with the rampant sex culture at college, including theme parties like “CEOs and Prostitutes.” She wrote about her extensive research and findings in yesterday’s WSJ, and every parent should see this!

Sex on Campus

Donna will be my guest on the radio show tomorrow, so be sure to tune in.

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Betsy Hart

Hi Friends – here’s a really interesting article I cam across as I was getting ready for last week’s radio show with Mona Charen – this article will be the basis for my column this week – pretty disturbing stuff.

Here’s a quick summary of the report – you have to scroll down about half way to get to the “Character Counts – Report Card on the Ethics of America’s Kids” from the 4-H “Tip Sheet.”

Report on the Ethics of America’s Youth

You need to take a look! Pretty eye opening.

Thanks for stopping by!

Betsy Hart

As always, thanks for stopping by.

Betsy Hart

Hi friends – here’s this week’s column. Apparently it hits close to home for many folks. I’ve already gotten a lot of response to it!

My Column

Have a great weekend – and thanks for stopping by.

Betsy Hart

Hi Friends – I hope you’ll join producer Lynne and me as we talk live to nationally syndicated columnist and best selling author Mona Charen. Today Mona takes on the public schools and their attempts to teach a “character curriculum.” Is such a thing a band-aid response to moral decay, or worse an oxymoron in the public schools (which Mona’s kids, mine and Lynne’s all attend, by the way)? On the other hand, what’s wrong with taking a stab at teaching “trustworthiness” for instance? What are some secular resources that parents concerned about these things should know about? We’ll discuss it all today a 2:00 central, on AM1160 WYLL Chicago. You can also listen at wyllc.com, or later today here or on nationalreview.com.

As always – thanks for listening!

Betsy Hart

Hi friends – I’ve been made aware that a really interesting issue is coming up in the Senate today. Under the moniker “net neutrality,” the Senate will be debating whether to impose sweeping new regulations on the internet. If the status quo is changed, internet service providers will no longer be allowed to shift or rearrange broadband capacity to accommodate, or better respond to, heavy volume and various traffic flows. Internet capacity for all uses and users would have to be consistent and “neutral.”

What makes this issue interesting is that while most of the groups supporting the new regulations are understandably on the Left, some Christian groups are arguing for the new regulations too. They maintain that if internet service providers can continue to manage traffic flow (as they do now) they could, say, “discriminate” against large group of homeschoolers downloading material by shifting internet capacity away from them.

The answer is that that’s not happening now, and a vibrant internet marketplace is exactly what will keep that from happening in the future. These well-meaning folks should think long and hard about inviting the government in to solve a problem that doesn’t seem to exist. Because once the government is there, it won’t ever leave.

Maybe that’s why my mom used to say, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!”

For a larger picture of this issue, here’s a good piece from The Heritage Foundation:

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Regulation/bg1941.cfm

Thanks for stopping by.

Betsy

Hi Friends – here’s this week’s column. A little about the French, a little about obesity, well – you’ll see. Thanks for reading, and as always I love hearing from you when you get a chance to drop by here, or send me an e-mail at sendtohart@comcast.net

Have a great weekend!

My Column

Hi Everybody – I hope you are having a great week.

Here’s a very interesting article from the Wall Street Journal about how some kindergartens in Germany are going – back to nature. I think this may go even further than I would like on lightening up on kids in the early years of school, but it’s interesting to see what may be (an extreme version) of a new trend. Maybe even the beginning of the backlash to the “all school all the time” routine we seem to have in the U.S.

Enjoy -

New Kindergartens – Answering the Call of Nature?

Friends, I’ve received a lot of comments and e-mails in response to this column – apparently it’s touched where a lot of people are, and I’m grateful for what some of you have shared with me.

Here’s a piece I’d wanted to post since I came across it last week anyway, and now it seems like a good time. It’s all about the wonderful, scary, all-consuming dopamine high of love, and because it’s so true (and so funny!) – it will make you laugh out loud.

An Affair of the Head

I hope you are having a lovely weekend.

Betsy

Hi friends – here’s this week’s column about something – positive! – that happened recently in my own back yard! Grown-ups acting like adults, and protecting kids.

My Column

Have a great weekend. Betsy

Hi Friends – I hope you get a chance to listen today to “It Takes a Parent,” as I interview Carol Liebau, author of the new book, “Prude: How the Sex Obsessed Culture Damages Girls – And America Too.” Carol and I talk about taking on what Laura Ingraham calls the “Pornified Culture” when it comes to our kids, and helping them value themselves rightly in this crazy world. We also look at the New York Times magazine story from last week about kids on college campuses, even elite campuses like MIT and Harvard, who are saying “no” to the hook-up culture. Are these kids setting a new standard, or are they just swimming upstream?

You can listen to the show at 2:00 central time every week on AM1160 WYLL or www.wyll.com, or afterward here or easily get a podcast from NationalReview.com

As always – thanks for listening!

Betsy