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How Do You Raise Kids Who Don’t Follow the Crowd?

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Caroline vows not to say the F word. It goes about as well as you’d expect. Then we get serious about one of the hardest parts of parenting right now: raising kids who think for themselves when the crowd is bigger, louder and more online than ever, and when that crowd insists it’s the moral one.

We break down the “woke” acronym from Bethany Mandel’s interview on Hank Unplugged, debate how history should be taught (facts first, then the argument), and share a 2025 study showing reading for pleasure has fallen about 40% in 20 years. Eva brings Ron Hassner’s research on students…

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