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Hal and Melanie will be on "The Matter at Hand" on WGRC-FM in central Pennsylvania, today at 11 a.m. Eastern. You can catch the program online here!
We'll be on The Tom Roten Show just after 8:00 am EST today! Find us on WVHU AM800 in Huntington, WV.
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…
Pastor Douglas Wilson, author of Future Men (and one of our early reviewers!) talks about five aspects of masculinity in this video, "The Redneck's Last Words."
Hal & Melanie Young, authors of Raising Real Men, are the guests on Homeschooling with Heart, The Old Schoolhouse Magazine's Facebook discussion group, this week. We'd love to answer your questions, talk about your sons, discuss marriage and building family unity and more! Join us there today!
I always wondered why aviators in those old open cockpit plans wore silk scarves. Was it just that they looked so dashing? It certainly couldn't be to keep them warm, could it? This article proposes some reasonable ideas for the practice, but I'm convinced I've figured it out. A few years ago, we took our…
When a terrorist started a fire on a recent Northwest flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, most passengers sat in shock, but Jasper Schuringa jumped over four intervening passengers, tackled the man, beat out the flames with his hands, and subdued him. We're thankful he had the manly virtues of courage and initiative - he probably saved…
Duke Medical is about 55 miles away, a route requiring us to cross a heavy traffic zone that makes drivers from larger cities shake their heads. I once met a CBS News camera crew based in Atlanta that got caught in it; they couldn’t believe a city as “small” as Raleigh (what, a quarter million…
After we got the preliminary diagnosis of my cancer in December, Melanie began posting on my Carepages site. After a few messages, though, I realized that my silence was worrying people, so I picked up the thread and began writing. This is my first post in the series; I will include links at the bottom so…