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When a 40-Something Woman Announces a Pregnancy, There Is Only One Appropriate Response: "Congratulations!"
Motherhood is a gift & a responsibility, accepted by some for the benefit of all. To understand this is to expect more messiness & less optimization…
Jun 25
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Less Gentle Parenting 14: Nice Girls Don't Finish Last
On boys, girls, and avoiding the ideologically inflected temptations to make gendered excuses for anyone's antisocial behavior.
Jun 22
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Elizabeth Grace Matthew
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How Gentle Parenting Helped Turn America Against Children
Kids should be expected to exist (and behave!) in public.
Jun 8
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Elizabeth Grace Matthew
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Less Gentle Parenting 13: It’s Good If the Kids Think You’re Mean (and Great If They Say So)
We need to care more about our children’s ultimate well-being and ability to serve others than we do about whether or not they feel happy (and whether…
Jun 4
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Elizabeth Grace Matthew
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Empathy is Not Toxic, Actually
Empathy is neither a mere feeling nor a holistic virtue. Contra both today's left and today's right, it is a necessary but insufficient condition for…
Jun 1
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Elizabeth Grace Matthew
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May 2026
To Fix American Education, We Need More Than School Cell Phone Bans
School cell phone bans are good! But they are not enough. American students also need: (1) More discipline at home and in school. (2) Attention to the…
May 28
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Less Gentle Parenting 12: How to Gentle Parent Your Well-Trained Tween/Teen
The real end game is to raise independent adults capable of living the examined life in intimate relationship to others. You can't get there without…
May 23
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The Devil Doesn't Always Wear Prada
He always tells you, regardless of what you wear, that you have it harder than everyone else.
May 18
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Elizabeth Grace Matthew
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The Conservative Case for Daycare
Want people to start families younger and raise decent kids? Access to good daycare is part of the answer.
May 13
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Less Gentle Parenting 11: Yes, You Should Train Your Toddler Like a Puppy
We live in an era that deifies parental abdication and calls it wisdom. For kids under seven, we need to bring back the actual wisdom of parents…
May 11
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Ideally, Mother’s Day Would Be a National Celebration of Motherhood—Not a Familial Celebration of Your Mom
Think: More like Thanksgiving or July 4th, and less like somebody’s birthday
May 7
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Less Gentle Parenting 10: Yes, you should tell your kids when something they like is stupid (and when something is so good that they'd…
Taste has to be cultivated.
May 4
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