The House of Representatives, in a virtually straight party-line vote, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3916114-house-republicans-pass-parents-bill-of-rights/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> the Parents Bill of Rights bill on Friday. Democrats unanimously opposed the measure; they were joined by five Republicans: Andy Biggs (AZ), Ken Buck (CO), Matt Gaetz (FL), Mike Lawler (NY), and Matt Rosendale (MT).
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11898875/House-approves-Parents-Bill-Rights-AOC-calls-fascist.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> the bill fascist, stating on the House floor, “When we talk about progressive values, I can say what my progressive value is, and that is freedom over fascism.” She was echoed by New York Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer, who snapped that the bill was “Orwellian to the core.”
But House Speaker Kevin McCarthy celebrated the victory, declaring, “The Republicans put out our commitment to America. In our commitment to America, we said we&#8217;re gonna have a Parents Bill of Rights. This is exactly what we passed on the floor today; we&#8217;re keeping our commitment to America. &#8230; Today was a win for every mother, every father, but most importantly, for every student in America. You have a Parents Bill of Rights now, but unfortunately, the Democrats are too extreme to believe that parents should have a say in their kids’ education.”
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Promise made! Promise kept!<a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerMcCarthy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpeakerMcCarthy</a>: “Today was a win for every mother, every father, but most importantly, for every student in America. You have a Parents’ Bill of Rights now, but unfortunately the Democrats are too extreme to believe that parents should have a say.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/N8NhaHgp6W">pic.twitter.com/N8NhaHgp6W</a>
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“This bill is not complex or complicated,” stated Rep. Julia Letlow (R-LA), who sponsored the bill. “Nor should it be partisan or polarizing, and contrary to what you may hear from my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, it is not an attack on our hard-working teachers, who will always be the heroes in my eyes.”
“It is not an attempt to have Congress dictate their curriculum or determine the books in the library,” she continued. “Instead, this bill aims to bring more transparency and accountability to education, allowing parents to be informed and when they have questions and concerns to lawfully bring them to their local school boards.”
The bill <a href="https://congress.gov/118/bills/hr5/BILLS-118hr5rh.pdf">states</a> that parents should have the right to review, and make copies of, at no cost, the curriculum of their child’s school, which should be publicly available; the right to a list of the books and other reading materials available in the library of their child’s school; the right to inspect such books or other reading materials; and the right to know if a school employee or contractor acts to change a minor child’s gender markers, pronouns, or preferred name; or allow a child to change the child’s sex-based accommodations, including locker rooms or bathrooms.
The bill also would give parents a right to know if their child’s school has athletic programs or activities that allow trans-identifying students to participate in a sport not consistent with their biological sex. It also would give parents the right to know if their child’s school allows a trans-identifying student access to a bathroom or changing room not consistent with their biological sex.
“Educators, policymakers, elected officials, Executive Branch officials and employees, and other stakeholders should never seek to use law enforcement to criminalize the lawfully expressed concerns of parents about their children’s education,” the bill adds.
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Because the Senate is controlled by Democrats, there is little chance the bill will be passed; House Democrats already nicknamed the bill the “Politics over Parents Act.”

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Actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Hemsworth</a> is facing backlash after posting a photo of one of his 9-year-old twin sons getting a cake smashed in his face on his birthday.
The “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Thor: Love and Thunder</a>” star shared the image of himself with his wife, Elsa Pataky, and their three <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/parents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">children</a> celebrating the occasion. Their twin sons turned 9 on March 20.
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“Happy 9th birthday to my two little men! Only one way to eat cake in this house and that’s to have mum slam your head into it face first!! ‘Hey mum I don’t like chocolate cake I prefer vanilla&#8217; &#8216;oh really son, what about now’?” Hemsworth wrote in the image caption.
Some followers weren’t thrilled that the Marvel star was promoting the “violent” practice of cake smashing.
“Yeah, not cool. I would never want another birthday cake in my life. Also, its rude to everyone else who might be eating that cake (or what&#8217;s left of it). Its gross, rude, and a good way to ruin your kid&#8217;s birthdays for the rest of their lives,” one commenter wrote. 
&#8220;It&#8217;s so violent,&#8221; another user said, while another weighed in, saying, “That’s not funny.”
&#8220;Does anyone here want cake all over their face? didn&#8217;t think so. Why would your kid? And it&#8217;s so wasteful. So you&#8217;re going to throw a perfectly good cake away after the stupid not funny prank?&#8221; another person echoed.
Some of Hemsworth’s followers defended his actions, with many pointing out that cake smashing could be a cultural tradition for Pataky, who is from Spain.
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“How have we come this far as a species only to get more and more sissified?! This is funny and fun,” one commenter argued. “You know your kids and you know their limits. That boy probably thought this was hilarious.”
&#8220;It&#8217;s part of Hispanic/Latino culture,&#8221; another account observed.
Mexican actress Salma Hayek <a href="https://youtu.be/UPI4Kiuy_kI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a> the origins of the “la mordida” tradition during an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson show in 2021.
&#8220;When the cake comes you make a wish, you blow the candle and then you take a bite of the cake and then somebody behind you whacks you in the head and puts your face inside of the cake. It&#8217;s very normal in Mexico,&#8221; she said at the time.
“Mordida” means “bite” in Spanish.

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It is unclear who, exactly, goes to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/democratic-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democratic</a> officials for parenting advice, considering their first inclination when hearing you are pregnant tends to be recommending abortion.
But for some reason, the lieutenant governor of Minnesota recently offered advice on what to do when your child is out of the womb.
On Thursday, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/protect-my-kids-from-ghouls-minnesota-lt-gov-slammed-after-telling-parents-to-support-gender-affirming-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan recently spouted radical gender ideology to a crowd, stating, &#8220;When our children tell us who they are, it is our job as grown-ups to listen and to believe them. That’s what it means to be a good parent.&#8221;
Her comments came in defense of an executive order signed by Democratic Governor Tim Walz that legally protected things such as puberty blockers, hormone therapies, and more for minors.
To illustrate how dumb that is, let&#8217;s use a comparison rather than address radical gender ideology directly.
If your toddler came to you saying he or she is are a bird, you might play along with it and encourage them to use their imagination. If that 2-year-old were about to jump from the roof because he thought he could fly, you wouldn&#8217;t play along with it anymore. If you actually believed your child was a bird, then your son would get seriously hurt or worse — not unlike the sex-change surgeries Flanagan touts.
Of course, this is also horrendous advice for other aspects of life not related to gender dysmorphia.
If your son came to you saying, “Mom, I’m a failure,&#8221; you wouldn’t say, “That’s right, son!”
&#8220;Good parents&#8221; would not affirm their son&#8217;s statement that he is a failure. They would likely encourage that child to try, try, and try again until he or she succeeds. Mistakes don&#8217;t define people, their tenacity to overcome their failures does.
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Or, if a daughter said, &#8220;I&#8217;m never going to get an A on this test,&#8221; a good parent wouldn&#8217;t let their daughter wallow in self-pity. A mom or dad would likely tell that daughter, &#8220;Not with that attitude you won&#8217;t,&#8221; and help their child study.
So, if your son comes to you saying he is a girl because he likes to play with dolls, or your daughter says she is a boy because she likes to play sports, how is it good parenting to &#8220;believe&#8221; them?
Isn&#8217;t it more prudent to say, &#8220;Well, son, some boys like to play with dolls, and that&#8217;s okay; It doesn&#8217;t make you a girl. And some girls like to play sports, but that doesn&#8217;t make you a boy.&#8221;
Yet leftists like Flanagan encourage parents to abdicate their duty of guiding their children through life.
As Daily Wire host Matt Walsh put it, &#8220;No it is not our job as grownups to simply believe whatever our children say. In fact, our job very often is to do exactly the opposite.&#8221;
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No it is not our job as grownups to simply believe whatever our children say. In fact our job very often is to do exactly the opposite. <a href="https://t.co/7OsJGjY4ih">https://t.co/7OsJGjY4ih</a>
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PARK CITY, UTAH – JANUARY 21: Lt. Governor of Minnesota Peggy Flanagan speaks during IllumiNative Presents Inaugural Indigenous House At Sundance Film Festival 2023 – Day One on January 21, 2023 in Park City, Utah.

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Lori Vallow Daybell was once a loving mother, a contestant on “Wheel of Fortune,” and a beauty pageant contestant. 
At some point, however, her religious views became more extreme, to the point where she referred to people who didn’t share her views as “zombies,” who needed to be dealt with. As her views veered off into the absurd, the people around her began dying, including her 16-year-old daughter from a previous marriage, Tylee Ryan, and her adopted 7-year-old son Joshua Jaxon “J.J.” Vallow.
While there is no single moment to point to as the moment Lori started to go off the rails, many believe it happened when she met Chad Daybell, a married man who wrote doomsday fiction and religious books.
In 1996, with her second husband Joseph Ryan Jr., Lori had her first child, a son named Colby. Baby Tylee came in 2002. Lori would later divorce Ryan, who allegedly abused her and her children. On February 24, 2006, Lori married Charles Vallow, who raised Colby and Tylee as if they were his own.
In 2012, Charles Vallow’s nephew fathered a son, J.J., who at 2-years-old was adopted by Lori and Charles. The family moved to Kauai, Hawaii, at the end of 2014, and then to the suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona, in mid-2017. But only a year later Lori would met Chad Daybell, and soon the lives of everyone around them changed.
On February 8, 2018, Vallow filed for divorce from Lori, saying she threatened to kill him if he stood in the way of her preparations for Jesus Christ’s second coming, which she and Daybell said would happen in July 2020. Vallow called the cops on Lori, citing the murder threat and asking her to be placed in a mental institution to receive treatment. Police spoke to Lori and seemed to believe it was Vallow, not Lori, who was the one with mental health issues.
Then, on July 11, 2019, police in Chandler, Arizona, received a phone call from Alex Cox, Lori’s brother, who said he shot and killed Charles Vallow in self-defense. Lori began telling friends and family different versions of how Vallow died, from saying he had a heart attack, to suicide, to self-defense. She texted Vallow’s children from a previous marriage about his death, but stopped answering them when they asked her what happened. Alex Cox was never charged in the death.
Shortly after Charles Vallow’s death, Lori tried to collect on his million-dollar life insurance policy — only to learn that he switched the beneficiary to his sister, who is J.J.’s grandmother. After that, Lori reportedly never let J.J.s grandparents see him again.
By now, Colby had moved out on his own with his own wife, so he was spared from the horrors that were to follow.
In September 2019, Lori, along with Tylee and J.J., moved to Rexburg, Idaho, to be closer to Daybell, who said a voice told him to move there for the second coming of Christ. On September 8, 2019, Lori and her brother Alex, take Tylee and J.J. to Yellowstone National Park. Tylee was never seen alive again.
Two weeks later, on September 23, J.J., who is autistic, was last seen at his school in Idaho. The next day, Lori informed the school that he will be homeschooled instead.
On October 2, 2019, Lori’s nephew-in-law was the victim of a failed drive-by shooting in Gilbert, Arizona. The vehicle involved was registered to Lori’s ex-husband, Charles Vallow, who had been dead for months.
A few days later, Chad Daybell’s wife Tammy called police to tell them a masked man tried to shoot her in her garage with what she thought was a paintball gun. Ten days later, Tammy was found dead in her home. Her death was initially ruled to be natural, but police have since opened an investigation into the matter.
Less than a month after Tammy died, Lori married Chad Daybell in Hawaii. 
Three weeks later, after Lori and Daybell returned to Idaho, police conducted a welfare check on J.J. at the request of his grandmother. At the time, Lori told police that J.J. was with relatives in Arizona and that Tylee had gone to Brigham Young University-Idaho. People then began to question where J.J. and Tylee had gone, and suddenly, Lori and Daybell packed up and abandoned their home in Idaho on the same day police begin searching for the children.
Not long after, on December 12, Lori’s brother Alex died in Gilbert, Arizona, due to a reported blood clot. His death was not investigated further, as the condition ran in the family.
On December 20, police in Rexburg, Idaho, officially announced an investigation into the disappearance of J.J. and Tylee. A month later, Lori was served a court order to produce the children within five days. She and Daybell head back to Kauai.
When the deadline to produce the children passed, police began laying the groundwork to arrest Lori. They did so on February 20, 2020, arresting Lori in Kauai and charging her with two felony counts of desertion and nonsupport of dependent children.
It wasn’t until June 9, 2020, when police were searching Chad Daybell’s property in Idaho, that the bodies of Tylee and J.J. were found. Daybell tried to flee from the scene, but was caught and charged with two felony counts of destruction, alteration, or concealment of evidence.
Lori and Daybell wouldn’t be charged with the murders until May 25, 2021. In addition, they were also charged with murdering Daybell’s ex-wife Tammy. Lori was sent to a mental health facility to have her competency evaluated. Eventually, she was deemed competent to stand trial.
In early March, Lori and Daybell had their trials <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/judge-splits-trials-couple-triple-murder/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">separated</a> by a judge, with Lori’s trial set to being on April 3, with Daybell’s to occur later. The separation came after Lori tried to have the charges against her dismissed for lack of a speedy trial since she was arrested nearly three years ago.
If convicted, Lori and Daybell each face the death penalty.
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The following is an adapted excerpt from the new book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Stolen-Youth-Progressives-Replacing-Radicalism/dp/1956007083/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1678201243&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence And Indoctrinating A Generation,&#8221;</a> by Bethany Mandel and Karol Markowicz (<a href="https://store.dailywire.com/collections/books/products/stolen-youth-by-bethany-mandel-and-karol-markowicz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DW Books</a>, March 2023).
<h2>In Praise of Resiliency</h2>
A tear rolled down her cheek. A moment later, she closed them, and she was gone.
I share all of that with you because challenges await everyone at some point, even if my mother’s death was an extreme example, and building resilience is crucial to meeting these challenges.
How did my mother raise a child who could go through such an experience and not only remain intact but also go on to thrive? This is a question I’ve been asked countless times, and the answer is in direct conflict with what woke ideology promotes to its adherents.
The assertiveness and clear hierarchy of power my mother modeled in our home was a blueprint for me, and it’s one I model in my own home now. My mother, in her role as the head of our household of just the two of us, took seriously her duty to train me to be a fully functioning adult, because unfortunately, due to her illness, she recognized I would be thrust into that role far earlier than my peers. While still in middle and high school, I was getting a crash course in what is now facetiously referred to as “adulting”: paying bills, making meals, doing laundry, plus dealing with the bureaucracy of health insurance claims and navigating the healthcare system in general. I was put in charge of all of these tasks in our family in part to help my disabled mother with household management but also so that I could gain experience while still wearing the “training wheels” of having my mother present to troubleshoot or answer questions.
That assertiveness and training prepared me for life after her death just shy of my seventeenth birthday.
Just as important as this training, however, was that Mother believed in a concept that has become frowned upon by parenting “experts”: discipline. Remember the “look” that our parents once gave us, the one that froze us dead in our tracks? How often have you seen that same look in modern parenting settings? We are told as parents that any discipline should be “gentle” and that the relationship between parent and child is more cooperative than authoritative. This model of parenting leaves children without clear boundaries and breeds less capable, less happy, less functional adults because the “training wheels” never come off.
John Rosemond, a family psychologist and syndicated columnist on parenting topics, told me his perspective on the shift: “In the late ’60s and early ’70s, we (being the American parents) bought into the very utopian-sounding idea that the parent-child relationship was only of psychological benefit to the child if the relationship was democratic, if the child was in any discussion in the family on a level-playing field with his parents. We shifted from the understanding that the raising of a child was about the proper training of the child and the teaching of a proper moral worldview to the idea that it was all about having a wonderful relationship with your child. [This] was clearly a denial of the very concept of legitimate authority.” Instead of parents whose primary goal is to raise children to be competent, confident adults, as Rosemond says, we now “have two generations of children raised by parents who are trying to be liked. These are kids who have received a lot of unconditional love but virtually no authentic authority in their lives.” Without that authority, they learn neither clear boundaries nor how to model that authority in their own adulthoods.
One striking result of this approach is a drop in self-esteem. That may sound counterintuitive, but such self-esteem comes from capability and competence, not constantly being told how great you are without ever having the chance to prove it to yourself. Many parents notice this problem but are at a loss as to how to help. A 1999 profile of Rosemond in The New York Times delivers a succinct explanation of his view of the link between discipline and self-esteem: “If held accountable for their behavior and allowed to experience hardship and frustration, children will develop self-esteem on their own.” Too many parents, particularly mothers, “are guilty of rushing in the minute the child begins feeling unhappy or distressed.” This short circuits the process by which children develop a sense of their own ability to handle challenges. As Rosemond says in the profile, “If there are two words that underlie self-esteem . . . they are ‘I can.’” He continues, “I was in a school recently. I walked into the boys’ bathroom. Above the mirror, there was this sign that said, ‘You are now looking at the most special person in the whole world.’ This isn’t self-esteem. This is narcissism.” Woke ideology teaches parents to build up their children’s self-concept by constantly praising them and protecting them from difficulty. But that only makes them more vulnerable to difficulty later on. Learning the skills to handle challenges, often through the hidden blessing of failure, is how humans develop resilience.
The growth in popularity of “gentle parenting” and an aversion to discipline and authority in millions of American homes is a clear problem for anyone familiar with the goings-on across college campuses. Again, the inmates are running the asylum. And they demand to be kept safe from unpleasant ideas and feelings to the degree that professors have to tiptoe around any possible “triggers” that might offend their students, rather than teaching the subjects in which they are recognized experts. It’s as if they still need their parents to cut the crust off their sandwiches and offer to make “noodles and sprinkle cheese” if there’s nothing in the dining hall to their liking. A population-wide shift in parenting away from discipline and clear consequences and toward making sure children only experience positive emotions has created a proliferation of young adults incapable of taking on not just the hard aspects of adulthood but any aspect of “adulting.” This is a societal catastrophe. Just look at the increasing number of “children” in their twenties and even thirties who are still living at home, extending their adolescence indefinitely.
They lack, in a word, resilience — an essential aspect of which is moving forward from past traumas and taking ownership over your life, something I was fortunate to learn when I was in college.
Almost three years following my mother’s death, my father committed suicide. We never did resolve the issues between us. Considering all that had happened, I somehow wasn’t a basket case. But I wasn’t OK, either.
In the weeks following my father’s death, I didn’t act much differently than I had before, but given all I had gone through, everyone in my life insisted I go to therapy, and so, I made an appointment at University Health Services. When I arrived, they had an input form asking why I was there for mental health services. There were three lines to list why I was there.
I wrote on the intake form:
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<li>My mom died when I was sixteen.</li>
<li>My dad committed suicide last week.</li>
<li>Do I really need a third reason?</li>
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The woman who did my intake salivated when she saw my form. She was a doctoral student in psychology and, I think, sick of listening to kids talk about stress from finals or their significant others. I think she thought, “Finally, someone with actual problems.” It took me over an hour to tell her my life story up to that point in our intake meeting, and I’m pretty sure she called dibs on my case.
I spent the rest of that year of college, my sophomore year, making orphan jokes. The hat my friend knitted me became my “orphan hat.” The jacket whose buttons popped off that I couldn’t afford to replace became my “orphan jacket.” That was how I defined myself. That is, until my therapist confronted me during one session, saying, “I know that’s how you see yourself. But is that all you want to be? An orphan?” She told me that I couldn’t change what had happened to me, but I could control my response to it. I could decide that I would be something more than just an orphan.
I’m incredibly grateful for this woman’s tough love, that she challenged me to be more than a victim. Sadly, fewer and fewer therapists are willing to push their patients in this way today. Instead, too often they perpetuate the problem. As we noted in our earlier chapter on how wokeness has invaded every aspect of mental health, from training programs to professional organizations, the fox is already in the henhouse. Embracing victimhood is seen as a goal in itself, rather than, as my therapist (correctly) saw it, a stumbling block to self-sufficiency.
Author: Bethany Mandel
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This article is an adapted excerpt from the new book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Stolen-Youth-Progressives-Replacing-Radicalism/dp/1956007083/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1678201243&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence And Indoctrinating A Generation,&#8221;</a> by Bethany Mandel and Karol Markowicz (<a href="https://store.dailywire.com/collections/books/products/stolen-youth-by-bethany-mandel-and-karol-markowicz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DW Books</a>, March 2023).
Bethany Mandel is a contributing writer for Deseret News, an editor of the children&#8217;s book series Heroes of Liberty, a columnist for Fox News, and a homeschooling mother of six. Bethany lives with her husband Seth and their children in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Karol Markowicz is a weekly columnist at the New York Post and FoxNews, a contributor at Spectator World, and a contributing writer to Washington Examiner magazine. Karol was born in the Soviet Union, grew up in Brooklyn, and now lives in Florida with her husband and three children.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas</a> lawmaker introduced a bill on Tuesday to give tax breaks to healthy families with multiple children.
Republican Texas State Representative Bryan Slaton introduced <a href="https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB02889I.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Bill 2889</a> Tuesday. The bill would give property tax deductions to married families with four or more children; if a family has ten or more children, they would pay no property taxes under the law. Slaton said that the bill would help incentivize Texans to get married, stay married, and raise large and healthy families.
In order to qualify for the tax break, the child must be the son or daughter of two married parents, born after the parents are married. If the child is adopted, he or she must be adopted after the parents are married. A qualifying child can also be the stepchild of one of the parents, but only if the other parent is a widow or widower. Also in order to qualify, the couple must be legally married and never have been divorced. Couples must provide documentation of both their marriage and birth or adoption certificates in order to claim the credit.
According to the bill, a qualifying couple is eligible for a 10% tax deduction in their property taxes. Couples with four or more children are eligible for even greater tax deductions:
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<li>Couples with four children receive a 40% property tax deduction</li>
<li>Couples with five children receive a 50% deduction</li>
<li>Couples with six children, 60%</li>
<li>Couples with seven, 70%</li>
<li>Couples with eight, 80%</li>
<li>Couples with nine, 90%</li>
<li>Couples with ten or more, 100%</li>
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The qualifying couple is able to claim the tax credit regardless of whether or not the qualifying child resides in the same home as his or her parents; or whether the child dies. If one spouse of a qualifying couple dies, the widow or widower is entitled to the credit so long as he or she remains unmarried.
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&#8220;Supporting Texas means supporting Texas families,&#8221; Slaton said in a statement posted to <a href="https://twitter.com/BryanforHD2/status/1630649194674266121" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> Tuesday. &#8220;Strong families are the backbone and building blocks of society. We must support families by making it financially easier for them to have and raise children in a supportive and nurturing way.”
&#8220;With this bill, Texas will start saying to couples: &#8216;Get married, stay married, and be fruitful and multiply,’” he added.
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The press release also claimed: &#8220;[m]any studies have shown that children tend to have enhanced &#8216;wellbeing and development,&#8217; and tend to avoid developmental, academic, and behavioral problems when raised by both parents in a stable marriage. Falling birthrates also pose a potentially significant problem for the future as the age dependency ratio rises.&#8221;
The release also said that Hungary and Poland have passed similar pro-family policies, and as a result, have begun to reverse their declining birth rates.
Conservatives praised the legislation on Twitter.
&#8220;This is the type of legislative innovation we need in government across the board,&#8221; activist group <a href="https://twitter.com/BullMooseProj/status/1630987592501002249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1630987592501002249%7Ctwgr%5E9da76a52ee7dc5658c9d8bb153ca80b331c2398f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2FBullMooseProj2Fstatus2F1630987592501002249widget%3DTweet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Bull Moose Project</a> wrote. &#8220;Restoring the family is one positive step forward to restoring America. Fantastic bill, Rep. Slaton! Let us know how we can help. (And legislators who follow us, take note!) 👀&#8221;
&#8220;@BryanforHD2 has a visionary plan for orienting the Texas tax code on the basis of pro-family policy,&#8221; tweeted <a href="https://twitter.com/gjpappin/status/1630983938964324353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1630983938964324353%7Ctwgr%5E6d7b0ea526febba480e6f35a90d5c9641479ae8a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2Fgjpappin2Fstatus2F1630983938964324353widget%3DTweet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gladden Pappin</a>, senior fellow at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Budapest, Hungary. &#8220;He cites Hungary🇭🇺 as an example—where the tax burden on families is also reduced as they grow. The encouragement of adoption is also near &amp; dear to my heart!&#8221;
&#8220;Excellent and creative leadership from Rep. Slaton,&#8221; American Moment president <a href="https://twitter.com/ssharmaUS/status/1630794951863808000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1630794951863808000%7Ctwgr%5E04a2f715c12f759798a9f5f1206ad734d9d1e465%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2FssharmaUS2Fstatus2F1630794951863808000widget%3DTweet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Saurabh Sharma</a> added.
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There’s an interesting trend right now involving celebrity moms gushing about motherhood and how it changed them. This is especially notable because almost all of these A-listers are rabidly pro-abortion.
Their defense of being in favor of keeping abortion legal while simultaneously praising the #momlife will no doubt involve the word “choice.” They’ll say just because they want to be mothers, it doesn’t mean everyone should. But what these multi-millionaire recording artists and actresses fail to realize is that this attitude is more elitist than Paris Hilton thinking Walmart sells walls.
Take singer Pink, for example. The 43-year-old pop singer recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pink-was-told-having-kids-would-ruin-her-career-explains-why-she-had-them-anyway" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gave an interview</a> full of sweet sentiments about how much her two children, Willow Sage and Jameson Moon, have changed her life for the better. 
Setting aside the fact that Pink (whose real name is Alecia Beth Moore Hart) is intentionally raising those kids as “<a href="https://www.etonline.com/pink-explains-why-shes-raising-daughter-willow-gender-neutral-92095" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gender neutral</a>,” the whole interview was an extremely thoughtful reflection on how becoming a mother changes a woman profoundly and will often enhance, not hinder, a burgeoning career. 
“Everyone told me, ‘If you have children right now, your career’s over,&#8217;” Pink said during a conversation with The Zane Lowe Show. The artist recalls ignoring that advice and then reaping the benefits later.
“Obviously, we’re all much more complex than any of that, but when I had a child, I think it softened me to the world, the part that didn’t understand me,” she continued. “And I think that’s when my career began, really. I mean, I did a lot of stuff before that, but really, truly, I think it’s when I started to really understand myself and understand the world and my place in it.”
One reason the “Cover Me in Sunshine” singer was so adamant about having a family was her own tumultuous upbringing. Interestingly, a rough childhood is often cited as being a valid reason for having an abortion.
“Having a family was really important to me because my family life was screwed as a kid, and I’m super affectionate and cuddly and goofy. Just doing music wasn’t enough for me,” she said during the interview. “I was lonely. I was so lonely. It’s a very lonely business.”
“I love writing songs. I love singing songs. I love performing. Sitting with a guitar is one of my favorite things I’ll ever do, but cuddling with my babies and taking them camping and being dirty for three days is also one of the coolest things I’ll ever do, and making wine also happens to be pretty cool,” Pink concluded.
These statements vastly contradict the publicly pro-abortion stance Pink took in the past. After Roe v. Wade was overturned in June 2022, the artist was so furious that she urged pro-life conservatives to “NEVER F***ING LISTEN TO MY MUSIC AGAIN. AND ALSO F*** RIGHT OFF.” Not exactly subtle.
While Pink could argue that she should get to have babies because she’s rich and famous and can afford multiple nannies, she would never come out and say that. Instead, she holds the contradictory position of recognizing how children can and do enrich a woman’s life while hoping that fewer women experience that joy for themselves. 
Rihanna is another recent example of espousing two contradictory positions. The 34-year-old singer just took the stage at the Super Bowl LVII halftime show in a tight-fitting outfit as a way to announce her latest pregnancy. Fans were confused, then delighted, because she and boyfriend A$AP Rocky just welcomed a son together less than a year ago in May 2022. 
Like Pink, Rihanna said having babies has helped her career, not hurt it. 
“It’s this knowing that you can do anything,” she <a href="https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/rihanna-british-vogue-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> British Vogue of becoming a mom. “What the heck am I thinking? But you’re geeked on a challenge like that because you know what your body just did,” Rihanna continued while speaking about why she felt confident enough to perform at such an important event. “You feel this sense of ‘Nothing is impossible.’”
Meanwhile, the “We Found Love” singer lambasted Alabama Republicans in 2019 for passing the Human Life Protection Act, which outlaws most abortions, with an exception for when a mother’s life is at risk.
Rihanna also founded the nonprofit organization The Clara Lionel Foundation, which has worked with abortion provider International Planned Parenthood Federation, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/abortion-activist-rihanna-and-boyfriend-rapper-welcome-first-child-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Many pro-life activists used Rihanna’s Super Bowl pregnancy announcement to stress how women can in fact have babies and careers. 
Abby Johnson <a href="https://twitter.com/AbbyJohnson/status/1624957827562278913">tweeted</a>: “Dear Pro-Abortion Mob: Rihanna didn’t need to kill her unborn children to be successful. She’s a billionaire and just performed at the super bowl while pregnant with her second child. Take a couple lessons from her.”
Christine Yeargin <a href="https://twitter.com/christineyeargs/status/1624952875385520129" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> that “Rihanna revealing her pregnancy during her Super Bowl halftime performance is pro-life vibes.” 
After getting backlash from followers, Yeargin clarified her statements in the comments, sharing that she knows Rihanna is pro-abortion but wanted to acknowledge the inadvertent pro-life message the singer sent during her performance.
Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence also presents conflicting views on abortion. She shared her thoughts during a September <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jennifer-lawrence-reveals-sex-first-150235075.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with Vogue.
“The morning after I gave birth, I felt like my whole life had started over,” she said of having a son with husband Cooke Maroney in February 2022. 
“Like, Now is day one of my life. I just stared. I was just so in love. I also fell in love with all babies everywhere. Newborns are just so amazing. They’re these pink, swollen, fragile little survivors. Now I love all babies. Now I hear a baby crying in a restaurant and I’m like, Awwww, preciousssss.”
“My heart has stretched to a capacity that I didn’t know about,” the “Hunger Games” star went on. “I include my husband in that. And then they’re both just, like, out there—walking around, crossing streets. He’s gonna drive one day. He’s gonna be a stupid teenager and be behind the wheel of a car. And I’m just gonna be like, Good night! You know? Like, who sleeps?”
During the same interview, Lawrence questioned her conservative relatives and lamented the overturning of Roe as well. 
“I remember a million times thinking about it while I was pregnant,” she said of abortion. “Thinking about the things that were happening to my body. And I had a great pregnancy. I had a very fortunate pregnancy. But every single second of my life was different. And it would occur to me sometimes: What if I was forced to do this?”
This new crop of celebrities stand in stark contrast to others who claim they only have their careers because they were able to have abortions. Fleetwood Mac lead singer Stevie Nicks is part of that camp.
&#8220;If I had not had that abortion, I&#8217;m pretty sure there would have been no Fleetwood Mac,&#8221; Nicks <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/oct/14/stevie-nicks-on-art-ageing-and-attraction-botox-makes-it-look-like-youre-in-a-satanic-cult" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Guardian in 2020 &#8220;There&#8217;s just no way that I could have had a child then, working as hard as we worked constantly. I would have had to walk away.&#8221;
The singer claims she has no regrets even though she never had children. 
&#8220;I knew that the music we were going to bring to the world was going to heal so many people&#8217;s hearts and make people so happy,” the singer continued. “And I thought, &#8216;You know what? That&#8217;s really important. There&#8217;s not another band in the world that has two lead women singers, two lead women writers.&#8217; That was my world&#8217;s mission.&#8221;
But lately, it seems more popular to brag about motherhood – unless you’re <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/extremely-sad-chelsea-handlers-day-in-the-life-of-a-childless-woman-spoof-goes-viral" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chelsea Handler</a>. Celebrities love showing off how they have it all, which includes bragging about how they’re excelling both at being mom and having careers. They just don’t think the rest of us can do that, too.

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A young boy ordered $1,000 in food from GrubHub over the weekend after playing on his dad’s phone.
Mason Stonehouse is a six-year-old from Michigan and was using his father’s phone when he bought $1,000 in to-go food items, which involved $183 of jumbo shrimp and “endless” chili fries, as well as ice cream, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/02/boy-6-orders-1500-in-food-while-playing-on-dads-phone/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a>. The bank shut down the purchases when he <a href="https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/food/story/grubhub-offers-1000-gift-cards-parents-after-sons-96815372" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tried</a> to order “$439 worth of pizzas.” 
&#8220;That would&#8217;ve been on top of the thousand dollars worth of food that was piling in my kitchen,&#8221; Keith Stonehouse, his father, said.
Stonehouse said he let his young son play a game on his phone for around thirty minutes before he went to bed. Delivery drivers from the GrubHub app started coming to the child’s home after he went to bed.
“I was putting Mason to bed and saw a car pull up and the doorbell rang with the driver dropping off a big bag of stuff,” he <a href="https://www.mlive.com/news/2023/01/michigan-boy-6-spends-1k-on-grubhub-doorbell-just-kept-ringing-cars-kept-coming.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> MLive earlier this week. “My wife owns &#8216;A Slice of Heaven Cakes&#8217; bakery and it was a big wedding weekend, so I thought it was just someone dropping off decorative stuff they used from her. But it was from Leo’s Coney Island. I said, ‘What the heck?’”
“The doorbell rang again and it kept happening. Car after car. Cars were pulling into the driveway while others were pulling out. I finally asked one of them what they were delivering. He said we ordered chicken shwarmas [sic]. I took the food and then it hit me. I looked at my phone with repeated messages that my food was getting ready, my food was being delivered. I looked at my bank account and it was getting drained,” he added
&#8220;I looked at my phone and all of a sudden I see &#8216;Grubhub, Grubhub, Grubhub&#8217; and in that same second all these cars and all these lights and the doorbells going off,&#8221; Stonehouse <a href="https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/food/story/grubhub-offers-1000-gift-cards-parents-after-sons-96815372" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Good Morning America in an interview over Zoom. &#8220;They kept coming and they kept coming.”
“This was like something out of a &#8216;Saturday Night Live&#8217; skit,” Stonehouse said. “I was probably a 9.5 out of 10 anger while it was happening. The next day, I was at an eight and now I’m at about a three. I don’t really find it funny yet, but I can laugh with people a little bit. It’s a lot of money and it kind of came out of nowhere.”
“He’s 6, so it doesn’t kind of sink in. It’s not like if our 13-year-old did this, then it would sink in to him,” Stonehouse noted. “Trying to explain this to a 6-year-old, we told him we took money out of his piggy bank to pay for this bag of food and this one and so on. We could tell he was upset, but we don’t know if it has really sunk in. That’s the frustrating part.”
The fact that restaurants are charging such a hefty amount for to-go orders could come as a shock to many, and Americans are feeling the strain of inflation, especially when it comes to food items. Restaurant food <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">went</a> up 8.3% in December over the past year. 
Stonehouse said the family stored most of the items in their refrigerators and they also had neighbors come to their house to eat some of it.
The company did offer to help out a little bit when they heard about the incident. 
&#8220;We wanted to make things better for him and his family, so have offered to send him $1,000 worth of Grubhub gift cards,&#8221; a representative told Good Morning America.

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Mainstream media seemed triumphant to report that Jinger Vuolo, nee Duggar, was renouncing the strict religious sect her parents belonged to and forging her own course.
Headlines about Vuolo’s new book and subsequent interview circuit touted that the former reality star was “free” from the “<a href="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/counting-ons-jinger-duggar-religious-upbringing-was-cult-like/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cult-like</a>” atmosphere of her former church, which was “built on fear.” These journalists seemed delighted that someone from a strict Christian household would figure out that the whole thing was a trick.
Except Vuolo never said that.
Anyone who clicks on these attention-grabbing headlines or picks up a copy of the 29-year-old Arkansas native’s memoir “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Free-Indeed-Story-Disentangling/dp/1400335817" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Becoming Free Indeed</a>” would immediately realize she is still a Christian, and she doesn’t hate her parents. 
Vuolo did share strong words of condemnation, however, for disgraced minister Bill Gothard and his Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP), the religion she was raised in. But even this bad experience wasn’t enough to sour Vuolo’s strong Christian faith.
Fans will recall the Duggar family from the TV reality show “19 Kids and Counting.” The series followed Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar as they raised their larger-than-average brood, including Vuolo, who is now married with two children. The show ran from 2008 until 2015.
The former reality star flat out said that she didn’t blame her parents for being part of IBLP or how it affected her upbringing. “My parents loved me and sacrificed so much for me. For all of us,” she wrote in the book.
“They invested their time and energy and souls into raising me and my brothers and sisters. Their patience, kindness, and love are things I want to imitate in raising my girls. They pointed me to Jesus. So, this is not a book about them.”
Vuolo also discussed some of her feelings about writing the memoir during a recent interview with Us Weekly. She said she “sought to be open” with her family members because the book wasn’t meant to sour those relationships.
“I remember initially, like, when I started wearing pants, that was a huge thing. And so … I felt like it was the most loving thing to do, to share [with my family], ‘Hey, this is why I see this in the word of God differently than I used to.’ And so we talked through those things. And [it was] the same with this book,” she <a href="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/counting-ons-jinger-duggar-religious-upbringing-was-cult-like/">told</a> the publication. 
“I think this journey is continuing every day,” Vuolo explained. “There are days where fears will come back and try to grip me and I’ll just have to think on what’s true. … I think that I really now have a more balanced view of [what faith is].”
While the former “Counting On” star shared words of love for her parents, she is much harsher in critiquing Gothard and the religious rules he inflicted upon his congregation. 
“Fear was a huge part of my childhood,” Vuolo <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jinger-duggar-vuolo-describes-cult-like-religion-of-her-childhood-said-she-was-terrified-of-the-outside-world">told</a> People during a recent interview. “I thought I had to wear only skirts and dresses to please God. Music with drums, places I went or the wrong friendships could all bring harm.”
She said this anxiety extended even to benign activities, like playing sports. Vuolo grew up believing that she should only spend her time in prayer and worship.
“I thought I could be killed in a car accident on the way because I didn’t know if God wanted me to stay home and read my Bible instead,” she explained of forgoing sports. 
“[Gothard’s] teachings, in a nutshell, are based on fear and superstition and leave you in a place where you feel like, ‘I don’t know what God expects of me,&#8217;” Vuolo told the publication. “The fear kept me crippled with anxiety. I was terrified of the outside world.”
She also said the IBLP was rife with “cult-like tendencies” which ultimately drove her away from that sect of Christianity. “His teachings were so harmful, and I’m seeing more of the effects of that in the lives of my friends and people who grew up in that community with me,” Vuolo said.
Gothard was forced out of IBLP after allegations he abused young women working at its headquarters came to light. The 87-year-old former pastor founded the religious group in 1961, preaching strict conservative values such as modesty and a strict patriarchal family structure. IBLP had rules against television, modern music, alcohol, dating, and public schools.
While some of his ideas were in line with more mainstream Christian conservatives, IBLP went further to the extreme and propped Gothard up as a celebrity, savior-type figure in the movement.
The Duggars have since stated they don’t agree with many of Gothard’s preaching, but they maintain that his lessons were interspersed with nuggets of truth.
“We do not agree with everything taught by Dr. Bill Gothard or IBLP, but some of the life-changing Biblical principles we learned through IBLP’s ministry have helped us deepen our personal walks with God,” they shared in a February 2022 statement.
“The public accusations against Dr. Gothard in recent years are troubling and grievous. However, our faith in God is not based on following a fallible human man. … Truth is truth, even if the messenger fails,” the couple <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ministry-nourished-duggar-familys-faith-falls-grace-rcna14024" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> NBC News at the time.
Now Vuolo is married to a pastor in training. She said while she and Jeremy didn’t have a modern dating experience due to her family’s strict rules, she knows picking him was the right choice. “Marrying him was one of the best decisions I ever made,” Jinger <a href="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/counting-ons-jinger-duggar-jeremy-vuolo-relationship-timeline/">told</a> Us Weekly.
“Jer came on the scene and I think my hesitation was mainly because of him being outside of my world,” the former reality star told Us Weekly of the couple’s courtship. “And that can be a fearful thing when you&#8217;re in that culture.”
In the end, Vuolo said Jeremy’s faith was a huge reason she knew he would make a good husband.
“I remember coming back [from a date] and telling my mom, ‘I feel so safe with him. Like he is everything that I&#8217;ve ever wanted,’” she continued. “He wasn&#8217;t in our setting, which is just crazy to think about, but he loved God and he was committed to the word of God and lived his life according to it. And that&#8217;s where I found, ‘OK, this guy is an awesome guy.’ It&#8217;s exactly what I&#8217;ve wanted.”

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Best-selling author and well-known organizational expert <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Marie Kondo</a> has admitted she’s &#8220;kind of given up&#8221; on tidying up.
The 38-year-old became a household name following the massive success of her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/books">book</a>, “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up,” which became a New York Times bestseller with more than four million copies sold. She also had a Netflix series based on her method of achieving minimalism.
Kondo, who lives in Japan, popularized the idea of decluttering by asking if each individual item “sparked joy.” But now that she’s added a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/parents">third kid</a> to her household in 2021, the expert organizer admitted it’s not so easy to keep a perfectly tidy home.
“Up until now, I was a professional tidier, so I did my best to keep my home tidy at all times,” she said while promoting her new book, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2023/01/26/marie-kondo-kurashi-inner-calm/">per</a> the Washington Post. “I have kind of given up on that in a good way for me. Now I realize what is important to me is enjoying spending time with my children at home.”
“My home is messy, but the way I am spending my time is the right way for me at this time at this stage of my life,” Kondo explained.
The publication noted that Kondo still prioritizes quality over quantity and strives to find joy in all the items surrounding her, but that she’s also less concerned about keeping a spotless home now that she has three young children.
The organizational expert also explained how she’s been trying to clear her schedule for more free time, too. As Kondo wrote in her book, “sometimes I pack my schedule so tightly I feel frazzled or am overcome with anxiety.”
The author previously addressed parents specifically about how to follow tidying rules while raising young kids. 
“I try to show my older daughter the things I do daily. I try to do some of the washing and folding in front of her, deliberately. Sometimes my daughter starts folding hats or tries to fold placemats on the dining table,” Kondo told <a href="http://time.com/5027690/marie-kondo-tidying-up-with-kids/">Time</a> in 2019.
She also said parents should be leading by example. Kondo <a href="https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-tidying-up-tips-for-overwhelmed-parents">contributed</a> to a Quora conversation, saying the “most important thing is for parents to learn to tidy their own things first. If parents can keep their own belongings tidy, their kids will notice and learn by example; they’ll realize how tidying is comforting and enjoyable.”

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Fans Delighted That Tidying Up Expert Marie Kondo Admits She's 'Kind Of Given Up' After Birth Of Third Child

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tom-brady">Tom Brady</a> said he hopes his three <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/parents">children</a> experience failure in their lives as a learning experience.
The 45-year-old Tampa Bay Buccanneers quarterback discussed his theory of resiliency during a podcast interview with Jim Gray for the “Let&#8217;s Go” <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tom-brady-andy-reid-future-plans/id1584409759?i=1000596183775">podcast</a>.
&#8220;In life, you try a lot of things, and you fail. It&#8217;s part of life. We try things, we really push ourselves to try something new, and it doesn&#8217;t go the way we want. So what do you do? Do you care less? Do you care more? Or do you take the experience for what it was and try to learn from it and grow from it and find the resilience we all want to teach our children?&#8221; Brady said.
While the longtime NFL player has the means to make his kids, John “Jack” Edward, 15, Benjamin Rein, 13, and Vivian Lake, 10, financially set no matter what, he’d much rather they experience disappointment in life.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t want it to go right for my kids all the time,&#8221; Brady continued. &#8220;I told them that this morning. I said, &#8216;I want you guys to fail because I want to see what you&#8217;re made of if you fail and when you fail.'&#8221;
“Because life isn&#8217;t gonna be just a smooth ride, so we have to develop resiliency. You know, schools teach that. Sports teach that, a lot of things are taught through that,&#8221; he said.
While the star quarterback said it’s “hard for everybody in society” to experience failure, he also believes that going through those negative experiences is important. To that end, Brady said he’s grateful for being able to teach his kids life lessons like navigating failure as he tries “to be a good parent and present for them, and be a good example and role model.&#8221;
He concluded: &#8220;In the end, what do I always tell my kids? &#8216;All you can do is the best you can do.&#8217; Just do the best you can do, I don&#8217;t care whether you win or lose, just do your best, and you&#8217;ll be proud of it. We&#8217;re all cool with that if you did your best.&#8221;
Last year Brady split from his wife of 13 years, model Gisele Bündchen. 
“We arrived at this decision amicably and with gratitude for the time we spent together,” Brady said as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-brady-confirms-divorce-from-wife-gisele-bundchen-after-13-years-of-marriage">part of a statement</a> announcing his divorce. “We are blessed with beautiful and wonderful children who will continue to be the center of our world in every way. We will continue to work together as parents to always ensure they receive the love and attention they deserve.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/country-music">Country singer</a> Jessie James Decker recently discussed why her husband, former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nfl">NFL</a> star Eric Decker, was reluctant to get a vasectomy.
“I keep asking him, ‘Go make that appointment’ and he won’t. He just won’t do it,” she <a href="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-moms/news/jessie-james-decker-eric-decker-refuses-to-get-a-vasectomy/">told</a> US Weekly during a recent interview. “He says it takes, like, his manhood away from him. So he’s just gonna leave it, I guess.”
When asked if the couple planned to have any more kids, the 34-year-old singer said, “I feel like as of right now, it’s probably a no.”
The Deckers have been married since 2013 and share three <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/parents">children</a>: Vivianne, 8, Eric Jr., 7, and Forrest, 4.
Jessie went on to say they could have more kids even though that’s not the plan. “I mean, you know, if it happens, it’s always a blessing,” she told the publication. “We’re not doing anything to truly prevent [more kids].”
The “Should Have Known Better” singer talked about wanting her husband to get a vasectomy and his reluctance in the past. “He won’t book it. He will not book it,” she said during a January 2022 interview. “It’s still TBD.”
Meanwhile, the former Denver Broncos player said part of his hesitation was nerves while another part had to do with not knowing the future.
Eric told US Weekly in 2022 that “the papers are filled out,” but that he couldn’t bring himself to schedule the procedure. “It’s a little power being taken. That’s how I feel,” he said. “I’m a little nervous about it, to be honest.”
“You don’t know where life will take you in the next five years … We have amazing kids, so I don’t want a lot of love being taken,” he went on.
Jessie was at the center of a controversy last November when she was accused of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/country-singer-responds-to-claims-she-photoshopped-abs-on-her-kids-after-photo-goes-viral">editing a photo</a> of her kids in bathing suits to make it look like they had pronounced abdominal muscles. The singer called the claims “bonkers” but was getting so much backlash she felt the need to talk about it publicly, as The Daily Wire previously reported. 
“&#8230; Being accused of photoshopping abs on my kids (I can’t help but laugh) or … the polar opposite over ‘overtraining’ our kids makes me realize how bizarre our world has gotten regarding the body and what’s normal and what’s not,” she said of the claims, going on to explain how her kids are very muscular from being active. 
“I want to raise my kids to feel proud of their bodies,” she went on. “Let’s not pick and choose what we normalize regarding bodies and be accepting of all people and children. If we wanna do ‘better’ then do better.”

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Jessie James Decker Says Eric Decker Refuses To Get Vasectomy Because It ‘Takes His Manhood Away’

Jessie James Decker Says Eric Decker Refuses To Get Vasectomy Because It 'Takes His Manhood Away'

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