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Hi Friends - I just got back from speaking to Fellowship Community Church in Salem, Virginia, for the weekend. I had a great time! FCC is a wonderful group of people, and for the folks I met there who are coming to my blog for the first time - it’s great to meet you here, and it was great to meet you in Virginia. Thanks for welcoming me so warmly. Feel free to drop a line here or via the contact button, and just say “hello.”

Meanwhile, I hope you got a chance to listen to today’s radio show, “It Takes a Parent,” on whether or not we as modern parents are so overprotecting our kids that we are doing them harm? No worries if you missed it. You’ll be able to get the podcast here tomorrow, or later in the week from NationalReview.com.

It’s a “best of Betsy” show so to speak. Starting this week it’s all new shows again as my producers and I have revamped the revamped a bit after listening to your great input and suggestions. And by the way? Keep them coming - we read them all.

Thanks for stopping by!

Betsy

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Hi friends - here’s this week’s column. What exactly is a. . . .”Baby Coordinator”?

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(Hi Friends - while we are at work revamping the radio show, this week’s and next week’s broadcasts will be “The Best of It Takes a Parent” episodes).

Hi Friends - This week on my radio show, “It Takes a Parent,” I have the honor of talking with Dr. Calvin Beisner (rhymes with ‘Nice - ner”) He wears many hats, one of which is the National Spokesman for the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation.

Cornwall Alliance

This week, Dr. Beisner and I discuss the growing seduction of many well meaning evangelicals into the global “climate change” political movement, and the devastating repercussion for the poor that could have around the world. You will not want to miss the discussion of the real story about climate change, why and how many Christians in the United States are being misled on this issue, and the principles behind rightly stewarding the creation.

And by the way, you may be more than a little surprised (and horrified) to find out where the money to promote much of the global warming “hype” in the Christian community is coming from (this from the Institute for Religion and Democracy)

Do Some “Humanitarians” Hate People?

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As always, thanks for stopping by!

Betsy Hart

P.S. - Thanks for all your notes and e-mails. I read every single one, even when I can’t answer them all.

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Hi Friends - my producers and I are in the process of adding some new twists to my radio show, “It Takes a Parent,” so this week’s podcast is getting up late, but - I think you’ll want to tune in to last Sunday’s show as it’s about the economy and handling finances and what a timely message even though it’s a show which is repeating from July 27th.

David Briggs from the “Good Sense” stewardship ministry at Willow Creek Community Church joins me to talk finances, and savings, and staying out of debt even in turbulent times. Be sure to use the new “one-click” feature above which allows you to easily hear the radio show.

Hey, if you have ideas for the radio show or features you’d like to see - now is the time to tell me. Contact me by clicking the envelope above.

Soon, Scripps Howard News Service will be adding the “It takes a Parent” show to their website, so stay tuned for more!

Cheers - Betsy Hart

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Hi friends - here’s this week’s column. Kids and work in our homes and. . . the two aren’t mixing as well as they used to in modern-day America, it seems!

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And here’s this week’s column on the dangers of. . . the hula hoop? Yep!

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Meanwhile, I hope you tune in to my radio show, “It Takes a Parent,” this Sunday at noon central time, AM1160/WYLL Chicago, streaming live on WYLL.com, or later here on my website or, on Fridays, that week’s show is podcast and archived on www.nationalreview.com. I’ll be talking with Dr. David Elkind, author of the block buster best-seller “The Hurried Child,” on what happens when we push our kids to grow up too fast? Twenty-five years after the release of the book, the trend may be worse than ever. How can we give childhood back to our kids? I also talk to Dr. Bennett Leventhal from the University of Illinois Chicago. A renowned juvenile psychiatrist, he sheds light on the news this week that pediatric suicides are on the rise after years of having leveled off. I hope you tune in for some really valuable information.

Later, I’ll be posting some political columns I’ve done for the “Chicago Daily Observer” this week on the Sarah Palin choice - and why she makes so many people so hysterically nervous!

I hope you have a great weekend. Thanks for stopping by, and please remember that I read all the e-mails I receive, even when I can’t answer each one.

And thank you!

Betsy

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. . . how can we teach our kids that work is an inherently good thing? It’s not just about making money, it’s not a necessary evil one has to do to get to the other “good” stuff in life, which even some in our Christian culture teach. Rather, “work” is a wholesome thing - it was, after all, present in the garden before the fall. So on Labor Day and every day in a culture which has such a twisted understanding of work, how do we teach our children to value the creative, redemptive, and protective value of work? Oh heck, how do we just get them to do a few chores without complaining??

Listen today when I talk to writer Tony Woodlief, and we expand from the themes of his Wall Street Journal article I posted earlier this week. (You can find more of his funny and engaging work on family life and, among other things, raising boys into men!) at www.tonywoodlief.com.

I hope you tune in today at WYLL/AM1160 Chicago at noon, or listen live via streaming at www.wyll.com. Later listen here by clicking the microphone, or, at the end of the week, get a podcast of the show on NationalReview.com.

And thanks for stopping by!

Betsy Hart

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Hi friends - here’s a column I wrote yesterday for the Chicago Daily Observer on the Palin choice for VP -

(Since I wrote this yesterday, I’ve heard a bit more from the national media on the significance of Palin’s gender - but still nothing like we would be hearing if she were a Democrat!)

When a Real Woman is not a “Real Woman”

As always, thanks for stopping by!

(And yes, a little later today I will be telling you about tomorrow’s radio show!)

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Hi Friends - My 12-year-old, Tori, had to miss the Jonas Brothers Chicago concert last weekend.  Here’s what happened.  It was a lesson to me in letting our kids handle adversity!

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Have a great Labor Day weekend, but check back later today for a preview of my radio show on Sunday!

Betsy

(P.S. - I’m thrilled about the Palin choice for McCain’s VP!  Feel free to tell me what you think of that too.)

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Hi - here’s another really good piece in today’s WSJ about kids and chores.

Hey everybody, get to work!

Kids and Chores and the Value of Doing the Dishes

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Betsy

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