New adult Muppets reflect today’s world and near future

“Did you read the article in the Metro (Dutch free newspaper) this morning?”, my mother texted me last Friday. “It’s about the Muppets, apparently mothers are upset about it because it’s too sexual and children watch it.” It wasn’t just coinsidence that, as I was on the train on my way home that evening, the […]
Nickelodeon, MTV and Comedy Central: the babysitters unite

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 Satan knows the Bible and he knows it very well. It was by using Scripture that he tried to tempt Christ Who is the Word Himself (John 1:1-5). I can imagine Satan with a […]
Identified

As I was driving home last Friday from Chico, the northbound lane coming into the town of Paradise had slowed down and was backup a half mile. I had figured that there was an accident up the road so I made my detour on some back roads to my destination. It wasn’t until a few […]
Your Child’s Brain on Television

Infographic: Your Child’s Brain on Television Click the link below to see the full picture. http://naturalpapa.com/media/this-is-your-childs-brain-on-television-infographic/
Last Child in the Woods

In this influential work about the staggering divide between children and the outdoors, child advocacy expert Richard Louv directly links the lack of nature in the lives of today’s wired generation?he calls it nature-deficit?to some of the most disturbing childhood trends, such as the rises in obesity, attention disorders, and depression. Last Child in the […]
Training Our Daughters

Is Snow White educating your daughter in the right path or are you, the parent?
Broken Hands

What does it mean to alleviate the suffering, poor and down-trodden? Does the?motive drive the action or does the action drive the motive? As I finished watching Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of Rural?Studio, I was struck with a sense of a selfless man, who by all appearances had?no religious prompting (Christian that […]
SpongeBob and Preschool Brains

Parents may dote on the tragicomic adventures of SpongeBob SquarePants, but researchers say that that the cartoon’s fast-based scenes may make it harder for young children to pay attention and think. “I would not encourage parents of a 4-year-old boy to have him watch SpongeBob right before he goes in for his kindergarten readiness assessment,” […]