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Aug 16, 2024 | 
psychologytoday.com | Thomas Lickona
Peer persecution and exclusion deprive students of the experience of being valued and accepted by peers. Research has found that the damage from regular bullying can be worse than the harm of having abusive parents. Even the best bullying prevention programs reduce bullying by no more than a third. School-wide character education can help create a culture that proactively promotes respect and kindness. "Children remind me of chickens, seeking out the weak and wounded and pecking them to death.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
qoshe.com | Thomas Lickona
"Children remind me of chickens, seeking out the weak and wounded and pecking them to death. They have discovered that my 9-year-old son, who is autistic, is bothered by loud noises, and they scream and whistle in his ear until he cries." —the mother of a fourth-graderA school’s most powerful moral influence is how the people there treat each other. In a great many schools, adults are making a conscientious effort to treat students with love and respect.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
cortlandstandard.com | Thomas Lickona
Trending stories A single mother who works full time says that when she gets home from work and asks her 16- and 14-year-old daughters for help with dinner, they respond, “That’s your job.” A … Johnson shuts out Homer, Cortland sweeps rival Ethan Johnson went seven shutout frames for Cortland as the Purple Tigers shut out Homer for the second time this week with a 3-0 win Thursday at Gutchess Lumber Sports Complex. Ethan Johnson … Neighbors wonder how to use railroad to nowhere The rattling...
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
mercatornet.com | Thomas Lickona |Ida Gazzola |Valerie Hudson |Michael Cook
A single mother who works full time says that when she gets home from work and asks her 16- and 14-year-old daughters for help with dinner, they respond, “That’s your job.”A 15-year-old boy, asked to mow the lawn, said, “Why should I mow the lawn? It’s not my lawn.”Attitudes like these caused two-thirds of American parents to tell a Time/CNN poll they felt they had spoiled their children. What are American parents doing wrong? Cultural differencesClues come from a Harvard study decades before.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
psychologytoday.com | Thomas Lickona
Most American parents feel they have spoiled their children. Studies show it is possible to raise responsible children by giving them meaningful family responsibilities. Everyday acts of helping, assigned chores, and helping beyond the home can foster altruistic character.
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Oct 20, 2023 | 
qoshe.com | Thomas Lickona
A story is told about a man who taught a class on childrearing called "Ten Commandments for Parents." People came from far and wide to learn how to be better parents. Then he got married, and he and his wife had a child. A couple of years later, he renamed his class "Five Suggestions for Parents." Then they had another child, and not long after, he renamed the class "Three Tentative Hints for Parents." After their third child was born, he stopped teaching the class altogether.
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Jul 7, 2023 | 
mercatornet.com | Ben Terangi |Samuel Gregg |Helen Watt |Thomas Lickona
Perhaps most shocking of all, as noted by the judge, the US government even suppressed humorous parody content that mocked — you guessed it, the US government — along with negative posts about President Biden. As Doughty highlighted in his ruling, “although the censorship alleged in this case almost exclusively targeted conservative speech, the issues raised herein go beyond party lines”.
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Jul 6, 2023 | 
mercatornet.com | Rudolph Lambert Fernandez |Samuel Gregg |Helen Watt |Thomas Lickona
Unlikely Christian, boxer-turned-aspiring-actor Stuart Long (producer Mark Wahlberg), turns Catholic for the wrong reason: to cozy up to devout girlfriend Carmen (Teresa Ruiz). Then, despite a debilitating accident, this trainwreck of a man turns priest for the right reason: to cozy up to God. But God, apparently, has plans. Instead of a fulfilling life of ministry, Stu faces down an incurable, degenerative disease that cripples him, muscle by muscle, limb by limb.
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Jul 4, 2023 | 
mercatornet.com | Louis March |Samuel Gregg |Helen Watt |Thomas Lickona
Any demographer worth their salt realises that 2020 was one of the most turbulent years in American history aside from the Civil War (1861-1865), thus one of the most difficult in which to conduct a census. In periods of social stress and rising crime, people are not overly fond of strangers coming around, which did not bode well for census takers.
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Jul 2, 2023 | 
mercatornet.com | Mark Regnerus |Samuel Gregg |Helen Watt |Thomas Lickona
Indeed, this may prove to be a bridge too far. The recent flare-up involving Bud Light and Target Corporation, and the mystifying battle over whether drag queens should read stories to other people’s children, suggest that many people of any and no faith are fed up with the proselytising. There’s plenty of religious tolerance in libertarian America — including among Christians — but little interest in revolutionary ideas about “queering” the gender binary.
