Promoting Your Child's Balanced Development
Giving your children the opportunity to develop a special talent can provide them with a sense of their uniqueness and be a healthy enhancement to their self esteem. By Gerald Alpern.
Classical Fathering versus the Judeo-Christian Model
We interview historian Frederick Hodges about raising children with classical Western values by avoiding the methods imposed on the West by Middle-Eastern religions.
I am 18 and unable to experience any pleasure from another person touching me.
When I was about seven a woman came to our school and told us about "the bad touch." She said that it felt "yucky" to have someone touch you intimately. That never happened to me, but I was always afraid someone might do that and the fear has never gone away.
After growing up with this fear, how can I make it go away? Did that woman ever stop to think what she was doing to me?
What am I supposed to do now?
-- Mashed in Massachusetts
Dear Mashed,
These programs were begun in the 1980s as a misguided attempt to prevent child abuse. If successful, people learn from an early age to fear and avoid sexual touching with adults. This early training lasts a lifetime. The result: Adults whose sexual feelings are directed at children, and reporting such programs as being the origin of their aversion to intimate contact with adults.
Protect Your Son
How a father discovered, too late, that circumcision is not a good thing. By Rio Cruz.
Children in Single-Mom Households "at Risk"
The fact that children raised by single mothers are at increased risk is found over and over again. Trev Martin asks, "What do we do about it?"
In Search of a History
"The Preamble, the Declaration of Independence, and the Gettysburg Address are the sacred scriptures of this nation." By Richard Hiatt.
Day Care - A Dangerous Experiment in Child-Rearing?
"Social science confirms that children raised in day-care centers and similar institutions are often emotionally maladjusted and mentally impaired." - The Wall Street Journal
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