As I recently wrote, the popular parent styles that employ hovering, overreacting, and coddling are unconstructive at best and damaging at worst. The best parenting style might just be to emulate an air traffic controller. Helicopter-parents hover over their children, bulldozer-parents push away all obstacles or disappointments, and bubble-wrap-parents overprotect and baby their kids.  All of these... Continue Reading →

At first thought, no one would think that helicopters, bulldozers, and bubble-wrap are connected in any way. But in actuality, there is a common thread. These are all descriptors of three main types of modern parents' parenting styles. And all three are troublesome.  A disturbingly high number of modern parents can be described as parenting... Continue Reading →

The writer and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, once said, "Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future." Regrettably, too many people these days don't have a good grasp on historical events, let alone do they remember something that happened just a few years ago. Take July... Continue Reading →

Pride is the foremost of the seven deadly sins. It is fitting, therefore, that the so-called LGBTQIA2S+ agenda* proudly uses the term “gay pride” as its rallying cry.  Pride can be simply defined as “an excessive love of self.” An overly proud person closes oneself to God’s help, insisting, “I am fine as I am.” Those... Continue Reading →

For parents of preschoolers, making the decision on the perfect year to enroll their children in kindergarten is not an easy one. Parents need to really sort out their thoughts and determine options before automatically enrolling their sons and daughters in kindergarten just because they turned five - the “magical” age when schools say it’s... Continue Reading →

Most Catholics today routinely perform common bodily gestures when attending Mass, such as blessing themselves with holy water upon entering the church, genuflecting when entering their pews, and kneeling during the Eucharistic Consecration. But modern Catholics have appeared to have forgotten one, unique bodily gesture. For hundreds of years, a Catholic would bow one’s head... Continue Reading →

The previous part 1 discussed how our profane, secular society immediately associates the month of June as the time to massively promote sexual disorder by celebrating so-called Pride Month. This part 2 explains what Catholic families should be focusing on in June as both a push-back against the godless culture and a form of worship pleasing... Continue Reading →

In today’s culture, the profane, secular society immediately associates the month of June as the time to massively promote and praise sexual disorder by celebrating so-called Pride Month. You can't avoid it, as every minute of every day in June you'll find "pride" advertising on TV, displays in the stores, sports leagues devoting games to it,... Continue Reading →

Nothing excites kids more than summer vacation, and speaking as a 40-year educator, I can tell you that nothing excites teachers and principals more either. Unfortunately, there is a problem when students take off almost three months for summer vacation. All this vacation time creates “summer slump” - an actual occurrence where students return to... Continue Reading →