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Mother charged after 5-year-old walks to pond alone, stirring parenting debate
The summer day started normal for Karyann Parkinson.
As the mother of four tells it, she was weeks away from giving birth to her fifth child when she took a walk with her son, Sam, through their gated community in Williamsburg, Virginia. They passed by a couple ponds and crossed the street about six times, she said. Sam, 5, zoomed ahead of her and back on his bike, with the goose feathers he likes to collect from the ponds’ edges sticking out of his backpack.
In kindergarten after a relatively brief and resentful period of escort by my older brothers I began to walk to and from school myself or with friends.
There was a creek we crossed along the way but no pond.
In grade 4 we brought to school a snapping turtle big as a garbage can lid after a lunch break adventure on the Humber river.
Now kids and parents have to worry about Drag Queen groomers.
Saving Masculinity From the Left and the Manosphere
There is no longer any serious dispute that our boys and men are in crisis. It’s an undeniable empirical reality, from plummeting male labor force participation and lagging educational achievement to disproportionate rates of suicide, homicide, and social isolation. What remains in dispute is how we got to this place and what to do about it.
White Women Can Run
There’s no diversity casting when it comes to athletics. You are either fast enough or you’re not. So it is with the remarkable Amy Hunt, who won four gold medals last week at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham. As such, she is the first athlete to win four gold medals at a European Championship.
The death of shame is destroying America
One of the strangest changes I’ve witnessed over the past twenty years has almost gone unnoticed.
There was a time when public embarrassment carried real weight. If a politician lied, a CEO abused his office, a pastor betrayed his congregation, or a public figure disgraced himself, shame served a social purpose. It wasn’t always pleasant, but it reminded us that character mattered.
Yoni Goldstein: Postmodernism is coming to a natural end
There is no specific date on which to pin the advent of the postmodern age. The term was coined in reference to painting in 1870, and first cited as a descriptor for contemporary social and cultural thought in 1939. In 1960, the sociologist Daniel Bell published “The End of Ideology,” heralding a “post-industrial society” and laying the groundwork for postmodern thought as a guiding light in academia. Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault followed from the mid-’60s, cementing the philosophical base for postmodernism and popular derivatives like Edward Said’s postcolonial theory.
‘Generation of moderation’ no more: Gen Zers drink as much as the rest of society, report shows
Gen Z isn’t the teetotalling generation after all, according to new data. They just took some time to catch up to the rest of the drinking population, and their influence is reshaping the alcohol industry.
As a larger proportion of gen Zers reaches legal drinking age, the gap between them and drinkers at large “appears to have almost completely disappeared.” The report from IWSR, a leading alcohol data provider, dispels the myth that younger people imbibe less.
Gardening with Occam …
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