Susan L. M. Goldberg
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Will a Viral Tweet Trigger Mass Protest Against Standardized Testing?
One author's revolt could spark an education revolution. → Read More
Uptick in Racism in Public Schools Is All Trump's Fault, Educators Say
The public education community is blaming Trump’s presence for an uptick in racial tensions on school campuses. The center of the conflict is the Edina Public School district in Minnesota. After one kindergarten teacher’s Instagram post of a class art project entitled “The Melanin Project” went v... → Read More
Dating Expert Claims 'Sex and the City' Ruined Her Life
We live in the era of pop culture polytheism. This worship of all things pop culture has some freakish ramifications. For instance, there are candles dubbing the likes of Kim Kardashian patron saints, and there's an entire religion dedicated to worshiping Beyonce. That's the amusing end of the sp... → Read More
10 Essential Life Skills to Pass on to Your Kids
Recently a UK paper published a survey of the top 30 “basic life skills” fathers are no longer teaching their children. The list, topped off with “building a tree house” and “making a catapult,” reads more like a lament on the invasiveness of modern technology than a realistic parenting critique.... → Read More
New Study Shows Early Formula Feeding Can Help Breastfeeding Later
When my first son was born I had no problem getting him to latch. However, it didn’t take me long to doubt that he was getting anything from my breast. “Trust your body,” the student midwife advised, “it’s been preparing 9 months for this day.” It didn’t take very long for me to realize that what... → Read More
Risk-Taking Playgrounds Aim to Teach Kids about Danger in an Controlled Environment
Would you let your child play in a playground stocked with wood scraps and bricks? Or on a jungle gym constructed out of gnarled boughs tied together with willow wands? A growing number of children in Britain are doing just that with the Queen’s blessing. Okay, perhaps Liz isn’t thrilled about it... → Read More
The Real Reason Toys R Us Is Closing That No One Wants to Talk About: Birthrates
If you're a parent, you've had at least one passing discussion on the closure of Toys R Us. The mega-giant toy chain that ruled the childhoods of many of today's parents is shuttering nearly 200 stores this month. While bankruptcy is the official reason, it isn't the only or perhaps even the bigg... → Read More
How the War on Boys Is Destroying American Culture
What is it about boys these days that makes everyone so fearful of them? Writing at National Review, Heather Wilhelm chronicles a litany of ways the parents of boys are given the clear vibe that girls rule, boys drool as the old saying goes. Look past the obvious anti-male bias and you’ll get a b... → Read More
Critics of 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Demand We Separate a Woman from Her Uterus
In his recent sports coverage here at PJMedia, John Ellis wisely observed of the Brazilian transgender volleyball player Tiffany Abreu, “Soon real women will be erased from the history books.” Ellis is absolutely right. The growing number of male transgender players in sports highlights a real th... → Read More
AXE Asks ‘Is It Ok for Guys’ to Wear Pink?
Back in January, I predicted that 2018 would be the year feminism goes after boys. So far we’ve seen the New York Times praise a growing Instagram trend featuring boys as young as ten years old posting makeup tutorials, preschool television being criticized for being too masculine, and the reboot... → Read More
Porn Literacy Class Gets Teachers Talking Kinky Sex with Underage Teens
A group of public health educators in Boston is resigned to the idea that the majority of American teens learn about sex through porn. They join a growing cadre of educators, both public and private, who believe they need to teach students how to think critically about pornography. So much so tha... → Read More
When Will We Have the Guts to Link Fatherlessness to School Shootings?
Now that the gun control advocates have had their fifteen minutes of fame, let’s start focusing on the real issues impacting the rise in school shootings since that infamous day in Columbine in 1999. Issue number one that no one in the mainstream media or government wants to acknowledge: fatherle... → Read More
Poll Reveals Most Moms Want to Stay at Home
Parents magazine reluctantly reported the results of the latest Gallup poll on mothering: The Gallup poll looked at 323,500 American adults and found most moms with kids under age 18 wish they could take care of their home and family instead of having to head to the office every day. By "most" th... → Read More
Department of Education Bans Daddy-Daughter Dances Citing Gender Bias
The New York Post dubbed it gender confusion — the new Department of Education guidelines regarding gendered school events, like daddy-daughter dances, are so muddled that schools are canceling the events altogether, lest they lose funding: A Staten Island elementary school scrapped its trad... → Read More
Planned Parenthood Finally Admits Fetus in Womb Is a Baby
The tweet from Planned Parenthood Maryland reads: "After Surgery in the Womb, a Baby Kicks Up Hope." That's right. Planned Parenthood admitted that a child in his mother's womb is, indeed, a "baby." As in a living, breathing individual. Go ... → Read More
Serena Williams Opens Up about Her Postpartum Nightmare
Unfortunately, most feminists are too wrapped up in the sex life of comedy stars and the ingénue reporters who pine after them to bother paying attention to Serena Williams’s harrowing postpartum experience published in Vogue. The day after her emergency C-section, Williams began gasping for air.... → Read More
Kicking Boys Off TV One Muppet at a Time
Recently Iron Ladies’ Rachel Darnall penned an excellent piece on the absence of He-Man from Netflix’s She-Ra reboot, observing: From a business point of view, Netflix is probably making the right choice: in this cultural moment, the combination of men and power has uneasy associations. “Powerful... → Read More
2018 Will Be the Year Feminists Target Little Boys
According to Time, all men are inevitably “angry.” The only way to stem this drastic tide of “angry” men is to raise them as follows: "At a young age, this should be done explicitly, in organized forums for discussions at school," Faith Salie writes. "It must be done relentlessly and organically,... → Read More
Non-Profit Trains Medical Students in Back Alley Abortion Techniques
The single-minded feminist paranoia regarding legalized abortion knows no bounds. Fearing an imminent reversal of Roe v. Wade, Medical Students for Choice, a national non-profit organization, is training the next generation of medical students in rudimentary abortion techniques. The UK's Gua... → Read More
Government’s Response to the Child Mental Health Crisis? Medicate Mothers.
Earlier this year I reviewed various topics covered in psychotherapist Erica Komisar’s much-needed book Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters. The book covers the culture of motherhood in such a profound way that I’d line it up with Ina May Gaskin’s Ina May’s G... → Read More