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Parent Trap: How We View Childhood

Current parental fears are creating an unhealthy vision of what childhood is all about because anxieties about falling behind have

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Parent Trap: Dot Theory

I bet most of you completed those numbered dot drawings as kids. The ones where you’d look at a page

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Parent Trap: COVID Lessons

The COVID-19 pandemic has reminded me of a Haruki Murakami quote: “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember

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Hooked on Books: 2.23.22

Shoulder Season: A Novel by Christina Clancy | This is a story of a 19-year-old girl who must grow up

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Parent Trap: Kindness is Contagious

I recently spent three days with 23 middle school girls at one of our weekend retreats, and the topic of

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Hooked on Books: 12.15.21

After Elise by Denise Pattiz Bogard | A woman driving on a rainy night sees a stranded motorist and pulls

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Hooked On Books: 11.17.21

For the first time as a reviewer of books, I read four books in a row that were perfection. I

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Hooked on Books: 10.20.21

Reset by Ned Lips Fans of Naked and Afraid and post-apocalyptic societies, this book is for you! You’ll be kept

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Parent Trap: Change the System

Instead of pushing girls to change themselves in order to fit our vision of leaders, perhaps we’d do better to

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Hooked on Books: 9.22.21

Sometimes, you just need a little help. This month, I did, so my big brother John Fitzgerald reviewed two of