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Where Are The Parents?

Another school shooting today, this time in Maryland. This time the “bad guy with a gun” was killed by a “good guy with a gun.” But, the bad guy was 17 years old, so even though there was someone there to put an end to it, I have to ask… Where are the parents?

No matter what side of the gun debate you fall on, the bottom-line here is not that the guy went out, used a gun, and shot a bunch of people. The issue is that this young man thought the solution to his problem was to go out and kill people.

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The Parent Questionnaire

Our own life experience is our greatest parenting resource.  In my book, Raising Children That Other People Like to be Around”, I suggest that parenting is like driving a cab: if you don’t at least ACT like you know the way, your passengers…
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3 SIMPLE SAYINGS

My mom would have been ninety-two last week.  Here are three gems she left me: Don’t be so open minded that your brain falls out. All of us have been in situations where our better nature overrides our common sense.  I’ve loaned money…
November 19, 2013
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HOLIDAY HEADS UP

It’s November now, the month of Thanksgiving (one of my two faves (4th of July being the other)). November is also the month when our children start rehearsing seriously for their school Holiday Programs.  Singing, dancing, holding signs…
November 5, 2013
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MY 5 SIMPLE “MUSTS”

I wrote "Raising Children That Other People Like to be Around" to guide parents toward a better understanding of their roles - as moms and dads, as well as parenting partners - because the core strength of a family comes from the leadership…
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CONGRESS IS A BAD EXAMPLE

How do I explain that our elected lawmakers -- the people who are most obligated to believe in the rule of law, and to live within those rules -- are so unwilling to accept their duty that they are shutting down the government just to get their…
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MILEY ‘N’ ME

ME N MILEY Everybody was tweaked about Miley Cyrus and her apparently quite lucrative twerking display, but I see a far more interesting phenomena occurring on a daily basis. I’m going to start at the beginning. When I was a kid my parents…
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