Teaching By Example: Does it Actually Work?
Childrearing is often treated in our culture as a competitive sport. Parents become overinvolved coaches running drills. The relationship between parent and […]
Surprisingly good life advice from child predators
Some social groups seem less likely to offer sound principles for living the good life than others. High on the list of […]
Common sense and sense experience
The socially acceptable posture in life these days is perpetual waiting: waiting for the relevant studies to emerge before making a decision. […]
The indulgence of self-loathing and William Blake’s “mind-forg’d manacles”
Recognizing oneself as inadequate and unsatisfactory has an appealing allure of maturity and self-awareness, but it is childish indulgence. Everyone knows people […]
Practically Speaking: St. Edith Stein on the Emotional Power of Objective Work
Edith Stein, also known by her religious name Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, offered penetrating observations about women—with their capacity for […]
Toward order: Holly Pierlot’s “A Mother’s Rule of Life”
The movement from chaos to order is often not a decisive, once-and-for-all decision. Instead, there is a plodding course from disorder and […]
Practically Speaking: What to do when you’re angry
Women’s anger has become an influential commodity in the post-modern world. Measures of women’s happiness are declining decade over decade, and “liberated” […]
Practically Speaking: Jennifer Reese shows you around the kitchen in Make the Bread, Buy the Butter
Many professionally credentialled adults find food preparation to be an alien and mysterious process. It seems perhaps we’ve made it too easy […]
Practically Speaking: Cheryl Mendelson tells you more than you’ll ever need to know in Home Comforts
A common complaint about child-rearing is that “they” send you home from the hospital with no manual. How are we supposed to […]
Practically Speaking: Making the bed in which you lie
“You’ve made your bed, now lie in it.” -English idiom On the topic of practical household activity, we previously considered a […]