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This morning Hal and Melanie are on “KSAL Morning News” with Rich Alexander and Jeff Garretson in Salina, Kansas on 1150AM at 8:10 am (CST). Tune in if you're in the area or click "on air" and listen online at: KSAL.
A few years ago, I wrote an editorial piece on things homeschoolers didn't do well. We've all heard about stunning victories by homeschooled students in the National Geography Bee, the Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee, science fairs, essay contests, and goodness, even the Heisman Trophy. Isn't there anything homeschoolers find challenging? some might ask. Well, there…
At the reception following Max’s bar mitzvah, the 13-year-old’s father raised the toast, “Today you become an adult ... yeah, right.” Everyone laughed, including Max, but clinical psychologists Joseph and Claudia Allen found the contrast between the traditional ceremony and the modern reality very pointed. Their book, Escaping the Endless Adolescence: How We Can Help…
Several years ago, it occurred to us that maybe the teenaged years didn't have to be full of anger, rebellion, and sullenness. Just because we went through it or saw it in our friends growing up, does that mean it has to be that way? Is that what you see in the Bible? Through history?…
Good Morning, Houston! You can hear Hal and Melanie live on 92.3 "The Eagle", WETX-FM, bright and early Monday morning! We'll be guests on "OutCast Radio" with Don Campbell in the 7:00 to 7:30 am segment and you can listen online here!
As a writer and freelance journalist, probably 90% of what I do is on the computer - research on the Internet, interviews via email, writing on the word processor, number crunching with spreadsheets, promotion on Facebook. If you go in a college classroom today, you'll find laptops have replaced notebooks, professors' websites have replaced handouts,…
"Boots and Saddles!" the cry rings out and the Youngs come running. We have long used the old cavalry call to tell our children to gather up, it's time to "ride out" (get in the van and leave :-). I can't even remember where we first heard it or when we first started using it,…
We're celebrating the official release of Raising Real Men with freebies and contests! I grew up in an entrepreneurial family and I have to confess that when we were first married, I thought it was great that Hal went to work and then came home and was done. Over the years, though, life as an…
