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This blog will be devoted to exploring some of the issues covered in “The 50 Rules Kids Won’t Learn in School.” And it will also try to update the parade of inanities involving our kids that helped inspire the book.  I’ll try to provide links to stories and studies that might have appeared after the book was completed
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DENNIS PRAGER SHOW/ MICHAEL MEDVED SHOW
Thursday, September 27, 2007 (163 reads)


I was on the Michael Medved Show this afternoon and the Dennis Prager Show yesterday to talk about the 50 Rules. Great interviews, calls, and reaction from both shows. Check back for future appearances.

 

UPDATE: Here is the link to the audio of my segment with Dennis Prager.



ARE WE AFRAID OF OUR KIDS?
Monday, September 24, 2007 (617 reads)


Family therapist Patricia Dalton thinks so....



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IF YOU DON'T TEACH IT...
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 (901 reads)


...they won't learn it.

Another study finds that our college students are woefully ignorant of history and civics.

Which brings us to:

 RULE (39): People in black and white movies were in color in real life. And no, the world did not begin when you were born.

 



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REALITY CHECK
Monday, September 17, 2007 (475 reads)


 

Author and speaker Joseph Wardy writes about a "Reality check for students and teachers."



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THE RETURN OF THE TOUGH MOM
Saturday, September 15, 2007 (507 reads)


This article suggests that "tough moms" may be making a comeback vis a vis "cool moms."



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WAS BRITNEY TOO FAT?
Monday, September 10, 2007 (562 reads)


 

Talentless? Obviously. Stoned? Probably. Clueless? Clearly.

But was she too fat?

Rule 31: Naked people look different in real life...



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ANOTHER REASON TO BUBBLE-WRAP KIDS?
Friday, September 07, 2007 (424 reads)


ABC News is breathlessly reporting that... there are germs in playgrounds.

What with the horrors of tag, dodgeball, and now this... however did any of us survive? But look for the "fun police" to jump over this latest reason to "protect" our children from the symptoms of... life.



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BUFFALO NEWS REVIEW
Wednesday, September 05, 2007 (535 reads)


The rules of life, at least Sykes' version, are pithy, understandable, enhanced by anecdotes and delivered in Midwestern straightforwardness...

 



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FELONY CHARGE FOR A SWISS ARMY KNIFE
Wednesday, September 05, 2007 (481 reads)


More signs of the death of common sense: A student has a Swiss Army knife in the console of his car. Now he faces felony charges.



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GET OFF YOUR BUTT AND WALK TO SCHOOL
Tuesday, September 04, 2007 (504 reads)


Congress has allocated $612 million to encourage kids to walk to school. Isn't this the sort of thing that kids used to be able to figure this out on their own. Before, that is, they got their own personal chauffeurs?



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