Outside the Beltway

The consequences of the post-Roe world.

We can all agree that Trump and Biden are over the line. But where is it?

There’s an inherent tension in public education.

Another call for letting kids be kids.

Safety, trade-offs, and risk assessment.

Apple’s iMessages and teen chic.

Kids 5-11 are getting their COVID shots at a rapid pace, but will it continue?

Another approach to persuasion.

COVID vaccine hesitancy is just the tip of the iceberg.

Some semi-coherent thoughts on the occasion.

Already-high rates have been exacerbated by the pandemic.

Are those with kids getting over?

Does trash become treasure with time?

Your treasures are your kids’ junk.

One of the people most responsible for the personal computer revolution has passed away at the far-too-young age of 65.

We all have to grow up sometime.

Paradoxically, the children of affluent parents are less happy than those of the poor.

We’ve got one foot in two very different technological worlds.

To some extent, we seem to be becoming overprotective.

A GOP Senate Candidate in Georgia attempts to back track, and runs off the rails in the process.

The First Daughters are approaching dating age and the First Papa has some thoughts on the matter.

Apparently, the prospect of a thousand pound fine isn’t enough to persuade Bristol’s dog owners to clean up after their pooches.

Kids born to over-35 mothers tend to be taller and thinner.

Ron Fournier details how Bill Clinton and George W. Bush taught him how to understand his son, Tyler, who has Asperger’s syndrome.

So Ron Fugelseth decided it would be cool to send his son’s toy train into space. Turns out, it was.

A farmer in southern Nepal mistook his son for a monkey trying to steal his crops and shot the 12-year-old dead.

National Review’s Keith Williamson can’t fathom why Alpha Male Mitt Romney is having so much trouble beating Girly Man Barack Obama.

In a groundbreaking investigative report, the New York Times has found that it’s easier to raise children if there are two parents and two incomes than one parent and one income.

Babies who grow up with dogs and cats in the home are healthier, a new study finds.

British Prime Minister David Cameron accidentally left his 8-year-old daughter at a pub.

Jeffrey Brown has a children’s book titled Darth Vader and Son scheduled for release on April 18.

Should you lie to your kids about holiday fantasy characters?

French mothers do not have some magical formula for raising well behaved children.

How did we survive without all the molly-codding kids today get?

Arturo Trejo conducts a hard-hitting interview with his son, Jose Luis

Is it worse for a child to see pornography or graphic violence?

Some people have no sense of humor.

Go the Fuck To Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing off to dreamland.

The words “mother” and “father” will be removed from U.S. passport applications and replaced with gender neutral terminology.

As the internet becomes more ingrained in our lives, it’s become a tool for parenting. And a break from it.

Has modern life robbed America’s youth of their ability to think? Or simply caused them to think in different ways about different things?