Nov 5, 2025 | Wednesday Quotes
Sleep deprivation is recognized as a form of torture, with good reason. Being kept up at night or inability to sleep is often a serious suffering. Yet being kept up, sometimes in the form of choosing to stay up, is a part of parenting. The arrival of a newborn in a...
May 7, 2025 | Wednesday Quotes
Educating or forming the young is arduous in any time or place. But given our social nature, human formation is especially difficult in a decadent society. Since education is preparation to be a good member of the community, what happens when society itself is...
Nov 6, 2024 | Wednesday Quotes
Much of what we need in life we must ask for. As this is simply a given, it points to the importance of learning how, what, and whom to ask. Thomas Aquinas holds that we can naturally know that there is a God who can help us, and who is worthy of honor and worship....
Aug 7, 2024 | Wednesday Quotes
There is much more than meets the eye in grandparenting. In grandparenting is perhaps the single greatest instance of the active human life coming to fruition. If this seems an exaggeration, it at least bears closer examination. We should not be misled by a popular...
Jun 26, 2024 | Wednesday Quotes
A central issue in parenting is discovering our role in the moral formation of our children. How do we best go about doing our part in helping them become the people we so want them to be? This is of course a complex question, and perhaps the first thing to realize is...
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