That’s what Bart Simpson told his family in “Homer v. the Eighteenth Amendment.” “I’ll go with you!” said Homer. Marge put a stop to it, and that was that—except, of course, that Bart’s drinking started a temperance campaign that led to prohibition. As the episode illustrates, things get complicated when the government [...]
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Posted in Children, tagged Children, Melanie on March 12, 2008 | No Comments »
My younger daughter is sixteen today.
Sixteen years ago, the day started in very civilized fashion. She was scheduled to be induced. My wife drove to the hospital as I read a Wall Street Journal editorial criticizing Paul Tsongas for calling Bill Clinton a “pander bear” in the days before the Florida primary. [...]
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Posted in Children, tagged birthday on February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
My daughter is twenty today. It stuns me to think that twenty years have gone by since she was born at 5:41am. We barely got to the hospital in time; she was almost born in our 1979 Buick, and then, at the hospital, was almost delivered by a very confused-looking podiatrist.
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Posted in Children, tagged sleep, teenagers on February 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Perhaps it’s because I have two of them, but I think maybe I’ve never grown up. Why do so many things start so early? (Not that I do many of them.)
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Robert Samuelson reminds us that the best thing we could do for our children is reform entitlement programs—something we should have done in the 1970s.
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Posted in Children, ethics, tagged Children, ethics on December 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Michelle Malkin: A Dutch couple who adopted a South Korean girl as a baby, when they thought they couldn’t have children, has given her back now that they have two children of their own. Some insightful comments on her thread:
What is this poor child going to think for the rest of her life?
Not to [...]
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