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Marybeth Hicks
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HICKS: Take PC out of parenting
Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010
Political correctness is wreaking havoc on our nation's children. The public schools are fraught with bold and bizarre ideas such as "gender education" and graphic sexuality classes that make the former notion of "health" class look like a reading primer from the 1950s.
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HICKS: Shocking report no real surprise
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010
Perhaps most curious of all the results of the recently released Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) study "Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds" are the headlines it has generated.
HICKS: Parents must talk about sex
Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010
The television hanging above my head in the waiting room airs an episode of the syndicated talk show "The Doctors." The topic? Sex.
HICKS: MTV's assault alive in 'Jersey'
Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010
A message for Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi: I am not a hater.
HICKS: Fatherhood by billboard?
Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010
Positive images of fathers engaging with their children are a welcome message in a culture where families struggle to remain intact and mothers generally bear responsibility for childrearing.
HICKS: Year-end recaps reflect life cycle
Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009
They don't call it a "news cycle" for nothing. As surely as the minute hand winds down the waning moments of 2009, headlines bombard us with a now familiar theme for every New Year's week: The Recap. This time, we're reviewing not only the year that ends at midnight Friday, but the decade as well -- a period one of the newsmagazines is calling the "Worst Decade Ever."
HICKS: Little ho ho ho in Santa satire
Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009
It turns out that Dr. Nathan Grills of Australia's Monash University may not be the ultimate Christmas curmudgeon, but in fact is simply a bad comedy writer.
HICKS: Indecent ads are a no-sell
Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009
Sneakers? Check. Morning TV show to pass 40 minutes on an elliptical machine? Check. Soft-core porn advertising for the commercial break? Check.
HICKS: Common sense in Constitution
Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009
Back in September, my husband, a law professor, asked if I would host one of the student groups for which he serves as a faculty adviser for a gathering at our home. I spent a delightful afternoon helping the group put on a barbecue to launch the semester while listening to them banter about myriad issues, as law students tend to do.
HICKS: Climate fears harm children
Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009
Here in the Midwest, we know a thing or two about climate change. Don't like the weather? Wait five minutes. It'll change.
