Who Hasn’t Been Disappointed By Their Child?

What parent hasn’t been sometimes disappointed with their child or some of the decisions that the child has made? What child has not disappointed his/her own parents? I’ve been on both ends of the disappointment. And I regret both. But the truth of the matter is that as children grow and become their own person, [...]

Scouting for Tolerance From the Left

Heaven forbid that any group would suggest that some moral standard might be required for inclusion in its membership. Forget the countless acts of charity, the guidance given to boys at risk or the countless practical skills taught to our youth. For the left, a major criteria to judge a social institution worth is its [...]

Toward the Creation of a Fatherless World

June should have thrown Ward Cleaver under the bus. She could have raised Wally and the Beaver by herself. In fact, with common kitchen utensils, June could have asked Ward (or any other willing and acceptable man) to mail his mojo and she could have taken it from there. At least that’s the implication of [...]

A Parentless World

Parental rights are constantly under attack with politicians and bureaucrats continually seeking to separate children from responsible parents. Take a look at what is happening in the UK: Parents taking their children to the doctor could be asked to let them be seen alone under guidelines issued today. For the first time doctors have been [...]

Government Schools and the Secular Agenda

It is truly remarkable how much authority the government schools have taken from parents in the direction of their children’s education. Forget reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmatic, many school districts have decided to indoctrinate children in secular notions, many the antithesis of the parents’ own believes and religious view. Take a recent example in Maryland. The state [...]

Having Large Families is Criminal

The neo-pagans are blaming large families for environmental problems. Yea, really. HAVING large families should be frowned upon as an environmental misdemeanour in the same way as frequent long-haul flights, driving a 4×4 car and failing to reuse plastic bags, according to a report to be published tomorrow by a green think tank. The paper [...]

What’s Up With the Girl Scouts?

I’ve long been convinced that the upper echelons of the Girl Scouts has been infiltrated and taken over by radical feminists. clewis at Roman Catholic By Choice blog has a piece on this subject. Background – I knew a leader who was taken aback when there were borderline femi-nazi messages on the Girl Scout [...]

What’s Up With the Girl Scouts?

Letter to a Grieving Mother

I learned, after the fact, the a childhood friend of mine died recently. Although I had not seen him for decades, my memories of our friendship are still vivid and I feel a (strange?) connection to him. I wrote this letter to his mother, a widow. Monday, March 19, 2007 [...]

For Aunt Hedy

God our Father, Your power brings us to birth, Your providence guides our lives, and by Your command we return to dust. Lord, those who die still live in your presence, their lives change but do not end. We pray in hope for Hedy, relatives and friends, and for all the dead known to [...]

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