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Laura Kastner: Getting to Calm: Cool-Headed Strategies for Parenting Tweens + Teens
Been there, done that and hate it. A serious conversation with our child suddenly devolves into a fight worthy of an elementary school yard. Instead of being able to settle the issue, we instead find ourselves upset and angry and our children feeling the same. That’s not the way to work things out. But how…
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About Jane Simon Ammeson
Jane Simon Ammeson is a freelance writer who specializes in travel, food and personalities. She writes frequently for Northwest Indiana Times, Shore Magazine, Chicago Life Magazine, Grand Rapids Press, AAA Home & Away, Northern Indiana Lakes Magazine, Experience Curacao, Experience Rivera May, Long Weekends, and Cleveland Magazine. She also writes a weekly food column and…
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Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism–From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond
“The history of contemporary American conservatism is a story of disappointment and betrayal,” writes E. J. Dionne in his latest book Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism–From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond (Simon & Schuster 2016; $30). In a recent phone interview, Dionne, a senior fellow, Brookings Institution; columnist for The Washington Post,…