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Six stories about love and family

Six stories about love and family

Discover lessons on marriage, how to raise confident children, the fate of the eldest daughter and much more.

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Spending time with loved ones during the holiday season may prompt some people to reflect on the roles family and parenting have played in their lives. In today’s reading list, our editors have compiled stories about the lessons of marriage, how to raise confident children, the plight of the eldest daughter, and more.


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Lighthouse parents have more confident children

Sometimes the best thing a parent can do is do nothing at all.

By Russell Shaw

Why parents struggle so much in the richest country in the world

Raising children shouldn’t be so difficult.

By Stephanie H. Murray

The Marriage Lesson I Learned Too Late

The existence of love, trust, respect and security in a relationship often depends on moments that you might consider small disagreements.

By Matthieu Fray

The fate of the eldest daughter

Women are expected to be nurturers. Firstborns are meant to be examples. Being both is exhausting.

By Sarah Sloat

Find the place you like. Then move there.

If where you live isn’t really your home and you have the resources to make a change, it could do wonders for your happiness.

By Arthur C. Brooks

A Shift in American Family Values ​​Fuels Estrangement

Parents and adult children often do not realize how profoundly the rules of family life have changed over the past half century.

By Joshua Coleman


The week ahead

  1. Star Wars: The Skeleton Crewan action series starring Jude Law as a Force user who encounters four lost children trying to return home (premieres Monday on Disney+)

  2. Year 2000a comedy-horror directed by Saturday evening live Former student Kyle Mooney on machines and technology turning against humans in the year 2000 (in theaters Friday)

  3. Ravageda thriller novel by Christopher Bollen about an elderly widow whose past resurfaces when she meets a young mother and her son in a hotel (out Tuesday)

Essay

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The fairy tale we’ve been telling for 125 years

By Allegra Rosenberg

Oz persists primarily through the numerous adaptations of the books, which established the series’ enduring iconography. (Author L. Frank) Baum’s world is best remembered as it appeared on screen, particularly in the 1939 musical film starring Judy Garland as Dorothy: a place full of songs such such as “Over the Rainbow” and visuals such as the yellow Brick Road, which have become the most memorable elements of the franchise. And with The Wonderful Wizard of OzSince the 1956 entry into the public domain, allowing the creation of new, non-canonical works, subsequent generations have reiterated these features to tell their own Oz stories.

No transformation has been more vital to the longevity of Oz than Wicked.

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