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Parents Successfully Sue to Make 30-Year-Old Son Leave Their House
CNN (“A judge sides with parents and rules their 30-year-old son must move out“): A 30-year-old man didn’t get the message that it was time to move out of his parents’ home, even after they left him...
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Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Dies At 65
Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with close friend Bill Gates, has died at the age of 65: Paul G. Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft who helped usher in the personal computing revolution and then...
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Death Cleaning
A while back, I came across an article on the Swedish practice of death cleaning, brought to America by Margareta Magnusson’s book on the subject from a year ago. If your family doesn’t want your...
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Dad’s Stuff is Junk, Grandma’s Stuff is Treasure?
In the discussion thread on yesterday’s “Death Cleaning” post, Dave Schuler observed: Fashions change. Young people today may think it’s junk but in 10, 20 years their views may not be the same. What...
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Backlash of Non-Parents
The image is released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0 via PxHere From the earliest days of the pandemic-induced lockdowns, the woes of parents trying to juggle family and work...
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Majority of Under-30 Adults Live with Parents
Pew (“A majority of young adults in the U.S. live with their parents for the first time since the Great Depression“) The coronavirus outbreak has pushed millions of Americans, especially young adults,...
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Father’s Day Musings
Father’s Day naturally has me thinking both of my own dad, who passed away more than 11 years ago, and my own journey as a father, which started almost 13 years ago. Dad was 66 when he passed and I...
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Conservatives and Children’s Rights
Writing for CNN, Jill Filipovic makes a somewhat overwrought argument in “Tennessee vaccine official’s story reveals an ugly truth about GOP and children’s rights.” I mentioned the case yesterday in...
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The Unvaccinated as Toddlers
from PxHere Yesterday, I was chastised for referring to eligible adults who refuse to get the COVID vaccine as “sociopaths,” in that the group is diverse and have myriad reasons. Besides, I was told,...
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One Million Under-12s Vaxxed
NPR reports that “Nearly 1 million kids ages 5-11 will have their first COVID shots by the end of today.” Beloved stuffed animals in hand, they lined up at schools, pop-up clinics and children’s...
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The Dreaded Green Bubble
Some news aggregator or another pointed me to WSJ‘s “Why Apple’s iMessage Is Winning: Teens Dread the Green Text Bubble” over the weekend. Soon after 19-year-old Adele Lowitz gave up her Apple iPhone...
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Babies on a Plane
WaPo (“Flight attendants want to ban lap-babies on planes“): When the seat belt light blinks on, every passenger buckles up except for one group of fliers: lap-babies. Unrestrained children sharing a...
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Reclaiming Playtime
Vox’s Anna North reflects on “The decline of American playtime — and how to resurrect it.” About 30 years ago, something happened to the way kids play. While American children had once commonly...
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Schools, Diversity Initiatives, and Parental Rights
WaPo (“Montgomery students can’t opt out of LGBTQ storybooks, judge says“): A federal judge Thursday denied a request to let Montgomery County parents pull their children out of the classroom when...
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How Old Is Too Old To Trick or Treat?
Over the weekend, I saw Annie Atherton‘s WaPo essay “What age is too old to trick-or-treat? Parents and teens weigh in.” As a father of 12- and 14-year-old girls who plan to partake in the event this...
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