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Tag Archives: children
It Really Is Rocket Science
Space has long been a wonderful source of inspiration for many people. Numerous scientists and engineers have pursued careers from having the touchpaper of their imagination lit by the thrill of exploring Space, whether that be in the context of science fiction such as Buck Rogers or Star Trek or the real deal, such as the Apollo moon missions.
Even those, … Read more
Posted in The Science-Minded Citizen
Tagged bis, children, education, learning, space
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What Does the Pledge of Allegiance Teach?
By Leyden Marks
In many schools across the United States, school children routinely stand to recite the contemporary Pledge of Allegiance in their classrooms, usually in the morning.
Some of the common arguments against this repetitive school-day exercise are familiar to me. (Some background on various text versions and the dissimilar complaints follows below). However. I haven’t heard before, from anyone else, one thing … Read more
Posted in Luster
Tagged children, Definition, pledge of allegiance, under god, united states
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Climate Change – What Happens Next?
As a possible apocalyptic scenario, climate change is sometimes ranked alongside, or even superior to, nuclear war in severity. Headlines tell us that the ever escalating concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will relentlessly push the temperature higher, unleashing all manner of dangers and adversity, threatening our way of life and harming Earth’s ecosystems. Sometimes it seems so terrifying that … Read more
Posted in The Science-Minded Citizen
Tagged children, climate change, drought, emissions, epa, flooding, Met Office, United Nations
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12 Ways to Raise a Savvy Skeptic
Skepticism is sometimes given a bad rap.
Skeptical doesn’t mean cynical. Raising your kids to be mindful, to question, to apply critical thinking to ideas that are popular in the culture (often undeservedly), will help them become more informed and woo-averse adults. So how do you raise a little Bright?
A DOZEN IDEAS TO TRY:
1. Teach your child to see everything in new … Read more
Posted in A Rational Woman
Tagged children, mindfulness, parenting, rationality, skepticism
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Does “Faith” Separate Us?
“You ruined my life,” my mother told me. The first time she said it was decades ago, when I first married, and she’s repeated it more than once since then.
The distress I caused her (which, perhaps oddly, never seemed to impact our loving relationship), was due to my marrying a non-Jew. Nominally, he was Greek Orthodox.
He and I had two children. And, according … Read more
Posted in A Rational Woman
Tagged agnostic, America, atheist, children, Christian, divorce, faith, intermarriage, Jewish, marriage, parenting
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Teaching the Good in Godless
“Not possessing a religious basis for morality, atheists are fundamentally incapable of having a coherent system of morality.”
–Conservapedia, Atheism & Morality
“The biggest damage religion does is indoctrinating and brainwashing children.”
–Richard Dawkins, in a The Times of India interview with Vineet Gill, 25 Jan 2012
As a precociously atheist child, I was often asked by friends why I didn’t just rob banks if … Read more
Posted in Umwelt Utahpia
Tagged canon, children, development, education, ethics, instruction, morality, parenting, philosophy, secular humanist, taught
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Holiday Celebrations and Best Traditions: Links in Our Human Chain
The 30 November 2012 issue of The Brights’ Bulletin includes a “Holiday Celebrations” topic that describes the “December Dilemma” faced by some people with a naturalistic worldview, who struggle to integrate meaningfully their personal lives with the predominantly religion-based social activities of the season.
The very next section (“Our ‘Best Tradition’ – A Potential Toolbox Topic?”) asks for commentary … Read more
Posted in Umwelt Utahpia
Tagged celebrations, children, Christkindlesmarkt, Christmas, Easter, family, gluhwein, happy, holidays, Thanksgiving, traditions
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