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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"If we can't trust our own institutions, even locally, to respond to individual and shared needs, at least some of those institutions may require rethinking.
Date posted: 2025-12-09
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.
Date posted: 2023-11-29