Tag Archives: Children

Ready, Set, Re-Engineer Our Children!

The old school house isn’t what it used to be—especially if your child’s principal is a member of the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP). If so, then he or she has helped sponsor a curriculum that you need to know about. It’s called “Ready, Set, Respect!” Its ostensible mission, as presented on its first few pages, is …

January 23, 2012 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (66)

“Do Kids Make You Happier?”

Last Wednesday NBC’s Today Show reported that adults without children are 7% happier than those with children. Having just written on Demographic Winter, I was struck by seeing this rather opposing perspective the next day. You can see it for yourself here. The central finding: “Marital satisfaction decreases after the birth of the first kid, …

July 4, 2008 – 6:41 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Tagged , , | Comments (3)

Ehrlich Was Wrong

DVD Review Demographic Winter “Never in history have we had economic prosperity accompanied by depopulation” “There won’t be enough people to run the trains and pay the taxes.” “Now we have forty years of evidence that the deterioration of marriage, the encouragement of sexuality outside of marriage is just not good for society, nor the …

July 1, 2008 – 8:33 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, Life and Choices | Tagged , , , , | Comments (5)