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Dixie Lane

Dixie Dillon Lane is a historian of American education, an associate editor at Hearth & Field, and an essayist with bylines at Current, Front Porch Republic, the Institute for Family Studies blog, and elsewhere. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame and lives in Virginia with her husband and four children. You can read more of her work via her newsletter, The Hollow, and follow her on Twitter @DixieDillonLane.

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Free-Range Kids and the Parental Compass

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Constant supervision thwarts a child’s ability to develop important qualities such as resourcefulness, self-awareness, and perseverance. But independence with a strong inner compass, a compass that is oriented toward the safety and trustworthiness of healthy family relationships, helps children eventually carry that attached compass away from home and eventually calibrate it for themselves.
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Why Do We Valorize Busyness?

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That is the trap of busyness: believing that the busyness itself is what matters, instead of placing all our work and all our rest at the feet of our maker. That is the trap that the addiction to busyness in our culture lays for us. That is the trap that we ought to resist.
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Technology in the Family Home: Add before You Subtract

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There is no shortage of opinions on how to manage the ubiquity of technology. Every parent will have his or her own opinion on these matters. But there is one key, frankly very uncomfortable, factor without which even the best of such ideas are sure to fail our kids: that at least in part, responsible technology use is caught, not taught. The modeling parents offer matters a great deal. And we do not always model well.
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