I subscribe to Dave Pell's Next Draft newsletter (also available as an app). He posts 'the day's most fascinating news' 3-5 days a week. And you know what? A whole lot of what he posts really is fascinating!
For example, did you know that Hanukkah and Thanksgiving fall on the same day this year? And that that won't happen again for 70,000 years. Who knew! Buzzfeed has lots of Thanksgivukkah suggestions.
Dave doesn't always post links to 'happy' news. I found this article from Vanity Fair to be completely depressing, but you should maybe read it anyway. It's about the way that social media is changing the way girls and boys, young women and young men, couple-up. (I apologize in advance for bumming you out.)
Surely this can't be true for every young person. I hoped that perhaps this was more of a coastal phenomenon since trends come last to the center of the country; but I had dinner with friends last week and one, who works with kids, says she's seen some of this behavior herself in her clients.
I don't know what can be done to stop this nasty social media/kid mash-up, but I think that anyone raising girls, and boys, should at least be aware of the trend.
On a related, but happier, note: my DIL, Lorna, posted a link to this (Seeing a Woman: A conversation between a father and son) on facebook. It's a well-written, father-to-son letter explaining why a woman's attire is never an invitation to sex.
Nate Pyle is the father doing the writing. He is the lead pastor at Christ’s Community Church in Fishers, Indiana. I gotta say, I tend not read blogs written by pastors but I think I'm going to have to read his. In fact, I've added a link to his blog, From One Degree to Another, to my favorite blog list at right.
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