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Parenting Is About Values and Numbers: Why Raising Powerful Children Is Our Urgent Assignment
Somebody recently asked me why I call myself #50PlusDad. He didn’t wait for an answer before assuming it was just…
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SAFE For Children Community Board
Snippets from LegacyNOW Leadership Project: Why People Make the System Work, Not the Other Way Around
Opening Thought: Great advances have always come from ideas; ideas do not fall from the sky; they come from people.…
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Children Come with a Parenting Manual and I Use It …Why I Reject the Trial-and-Error Mindset and Choose Purposeful, Value-Driven Parenting
One of the most painful things I was robbed of in childhood was my curiosity. Abuse didn’t just silence my…
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FATHER’S WEEK: From Disruption to Divine Assignment
Last week reminded me of a timeless truth: Life is not defined by certainty. Because in this world, certainty is…
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“Boundaries Are Not Barriers: A Father’s Creed for Raising Children in a World of Limits”
At 55, raising a 3-year-old for the first time, I have come to see that some of the deepest parenting…
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Education
From Handcuffs to Hall Passes: How Street Law is Redefining School Safety and Student Engagement in Ohio
COLUMBUS, OH, June 2025 At the 2025 Ohio School Safety Summit, one session stood out not for its policies or…
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Education
Leading from Within: Lessons from the 2025 Ohio Teacher Leadership Summit
Columbus, Ohio — On June 11, 2025, hundreds of educators, administrators, and policy influencers gathered at the Greater Columbus Convention…
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Education
Shaping Safer Schools: Inside Ohio’s 2025 School Safety Summit
In a time when school safety concerns are mounting across the United States, the Ohio School Safety Center (OSSC) convened…
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Not So, My Son: A Father’s Honest Reflection on Nigeria’s Democracy On ‘Democracy Day’
On a day that has been dubbed Democracy Day, June 12 in Nigeria, I find myself unable to join in…
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Building a Culture and Legacy of Discipline Rooted in Love and Trust
As a 55-year-old father raising my first child, a 3-year-old son, I have come to a profound realization: discipline cannot…
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