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Winnowing Your Children’s Friendships

January 29, 2026 by Laura Blodgett 3 Comments

Summary: Parents guide their children in matters of physical health. How much more important things that affect their character and use of time and energy, such as friendship. Continue Reading

The Falsely Patient Parent

May 24, 2025 by Laura Blodgett Leave a Comment

Summary: Sometimes other parents or so-called child experts manipulate definitions to make themselves feel better about their choices and make you feel guilty about yours. Learn how to see through Continue Reading

Confessions of the Color Pink: The Birth of the Transgender Ideology in the 1960’s

January 14, 2025 by Laura Blodgett Leave a Comment

(Some links in this post are affiliate links, including Amazon links, from which I may make a small commission at no extra cost to you.) Summary: If you want to strengthen your children Continue Reading

The Deceptive Allure of Learning Styles

June 3, 2024 by Laura Blodgett Leave a Comment

Personality testing has pretty much become a religion in our culture. Testing for Learning Styles is a subset of this and it is all highly suspect. Listen in to learn why. Below are links mentioned in Continue Reading

Dilemmas in Discipline

October 2, 2022 by Laura Blodgett Leave a Comment

Summary: Are you being badly influenced by other people's wrong attitude toward discipline? In this episode I discuss common excuses and faulty perspectives about discipline. By being aware of them, Continue Reading

The Siren Call of Extra Activities

May 10, 2022 by Laura Blodgett Leave a Comment

As mentioned in a recent THH email: Continue Reading

Do You Need Experts to Teach Your Children?

July 21, 2017 by Laura Blodgett 2 Comments

[hr] What exactly is the question about experts? The question of experts in the education of children needs to be refined on many levels. It is not a one-size-fits-all question. To treat it as such Continue Reading

How to Create and Empower a Bully

June 16, 2017 by Laura Blodgett Leave a Comment

[hr] A nearly fool proof way to protect your child from bullies There is a good way to protect your child from bullies. The best way to deal with a childhood bully is to keep your child under Continue Reading

How to Use Experts Responsibly

January 25, 2017 by Laura Blodgett 2 Comments

Knowing things is useful and helps us make decisions. Obviously. However, we each, individually, can’t know everything. Not only that, but what is considered correct sometimes changes over time and Continue Reading

Skipping the Graduation Ceremony Without Guilt

May 23, 2014 by Laura Blodgett 2 Comments

My husband and I have decided not to go to another graduation ceremony. We have no guilt about this. We really wonder why it took us so long to realize we had this option. We will happily attend Continue Reading

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