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Truthiness and Other Dilemmas

Half a truth is often a great lie. Benjamin Franklin The other morning I got up at 6 a.m., but my children were way ahead of me. Stealthily quiet, they greeted me in the kitchen with surprised and not-so-innocent smiles. A stool was placed suspiciously close to the out-of-reach cabinet of special treats. I figured Id come in just in time before one of them fell, or their mission was successful and I …

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Too Young For A Cell Phone?

At a recent school fair – you know, the type with a moon bounce, funnel cakes, and kids running around tipsy with glee to be off-leash for a few hours — my nine-year-old daughter strutted around with a puzzling pink cell phone sticking out of her front pocket.