Bethany Mandel
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Bloomington, MN, United States
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Past articles by Bethany:
Stolen Youth: How the woke, like all totalitarians, are targeting our children
The right way of looking at wokeness and woke culture is as a set of deeply toxic ideas that are force-fed to the populace, in particular to children. → Read More
When Reality Meats Corporate America
Washington Post columnist Helaine Olen ran an interesting column this week on the falling demand for fake meat that held an interesting tidbit worth exploring. → Read More
Parents fighting schools to protect their kids are heroes, not book-banners
Some of the books on school library shelves is so pornographic that parents are cut off at school board meetings if they try to show the material or read it aloud. → Read More
2 years of COVID, woke schools devastated our kids. Will the education bosses ever wise up?
COVID-19 lockdowns were a major educational failure, but school systems don't want to admit it. Instead, they keep the same strategy and children suffer. → Read More
Student loans forgiveness a slap in the face to millions
Student loan forgiveness rejects those who paid loans or couldn't afford to go to college. It shifts debt onto taxpayers without addressing education costs. → Read More
I'm a mom and Disney has me rethinking everything about it
I’m not open to Disney’s activism altering how my kids perceive the world, in direct conflict to what I’m trying to inculcate in my kids’ souls. → Read More
Shiloh Jolie-Pitt’s New Look –
Just a few years ago, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, a daughter of actors Angelina and Brad, was all the rage among gender-obsessed Hollywood watchers. Just last year she was listed among nine other children of celebrities being raised as transgender or with a non-binary gender by Insider. They wrote, Actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s oldest biological […] → Read More
No Library Story Hour, But You Can Have Some Drag Queens Read to Your Kids –
In my deep, deep, deep blue pocket of the country, Montgomery County, Maryland, we are still trapped in spring 2020 when it comes to COVID. We’re still wearing masks indoors, my kids are the only kids in their outdoor soccer league playing maskless, and many county services and events are still using COVID as the […] → Read More
Do You See Your Work as Essential? –
The last year and a half have brought a great deal of financial hardship and suffering to a great many institutions: religious, arts, theatres, etc. We’ve become members of a number of organizations and donated to many more. I have operated under the belief that I will throw $20 towards everything that brought our lives […] → Read More
It’s Time For the Government to Step In –
We thought we could trust you to make the right decision, but obviously, you care more about yourself than you do the life of another. You value your own freedom over someone else’s life, someone else’s beating heart. Have you no shame, no remorse, no sympathy for the pain you inflicted upon another? We’re having […] → Read More
Texas Taliban and the Actual Taliban –
Welcome back to activist Instagram. It’s been a while since I saw you last. My dear, liberal friends: I missed your memes, I missed your outrage, I missed your spunk. You thought that after you successfully took down Donald Trump using the power of your personal social media account with 125 followers, all of whom […] → Read More
On Masking and Child Development –
Throughout the pandemic (and before) one of my favorite commentators on parenting has been Emily Oster, an economist with an eye on data and parenting. She uses her expertise to analyze how to best make parenting decisions, and her books on pregnancy and parenting from an evidenced-based perspective are invaluable. As too have her contributions […] → Read More
Kids Get One Childhood and We’re Blowing It –
Last night a friend told me that the Marine Corps band was playing the last concert of the summer outside at the National Harbor. He told me “This is my kids’ last chance to hear classical music live for the forseeable future.” And he was right, and I realized it was my kids’ last chance […] → Read More
Want to Increase Vaccination Rates? Let the Virus Do Its Thing –
Louisiana “boasts” one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country, and as a result, the latest Delta COVID surge is hitting the state harder than high-vaccination states. It’s quite clear from local hospital’s reporting on the surge who are seeing the brunt of the impact: the unvaccinated. According to the latest numbers released, 239 […] → Read More
How Do We Trust the AAP Again? –
I have a five-week-old baby, and I must admit, they’re pretty boring. Up until this point, all they do is sleep, eat and cry. There’s very little time actually awake, although over the last few days, we’ve seen more time with his eyes open, ready to engage the world. And what do we do with […] → Read More
The Right to Fly with Small Kids –
Today I did one of the more painful things I have to do as an adult and I watched an airline fare mistake slip through my fingers. I subscribe to a service called Scott’s Cheap Flights (my sign-up code is here if that’s your jam) that sends emails whenever there’s a fare sale or mistake […] → Read More
The Power of Community and Just One Person –
Last night all of Jewish Brooklyn heard heart-stopping news: A young boy, 6-year-old Yosef Shapiro, had gone missing. Many minds immediately went to the same dark place: Another young boy, Leiby Klezky, went missing in Brooklyn a decade ago and was found brutally murdered by a member of his own community. After both Klezky and […] → Read More
The Cost of Wokeness in Schools: Real Education –
The woeful state of American education has been a concern for some time. No matter what we do, our kids’ skills and basic grasp in math and language just keep getting worse. The statistics have always been appalling, but it’s now crossed over into actually shocking. Leaked documents show that some Baltimore students are performing […] → Read More
Vaccine Passports Hurt the Very People They’re Claiming to Help –
Everyone has to get vaccinated in order to protect the herd: those who cannot get vaccinated. Kids and the immunocompromised unable to get vaccinated need everyone around them to be vaccinated to create a firewall of protection against infection. Okay, I’m with you there. It’s common sense. But in come the vaccine mandates and passports, […] → Read More
Won’t Someone Think of the Children? Maybe Teachers? –
This is a popular quote from the Simpsons and I’ve started to wonder if I’ve actually turned into Helen Lovejoy. But seriously, won’t someone please think of the children? Despite not having children in schools myself, I’ve spent the better part of the last year and a half advocating for open schools and normalcy, because […] → Read More