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Marybeth Hicks is a weekly columnist for the The Washington Times and editor of Family Events, a weekly e-newsletter and blog site for women from the publishers of Human Events. She is the author of Don't Let the Kids Drink the Kool-Aid: Confronting the Left's Assault on Our Families, Faith, and Freedom (Regnery Publishers, 2011). Mrs. Hicks began her career as a writer in the Reagan White House, and later was a communications specialist in the educational, healthcare and corporate sectors. A Michigan resident, she served as a gubernatorial appointee to the board of the Michigan Children’s Trust Fund. She currently serves on the national advisory boards of the Parents Television Council and Eduguide, a non-profit that promotes school success. Mrs. Hicks is a graduate of Michigan State University. She and her husband make their home in Michigan and are the parents of four children.
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Marybeth Hicks (Dec 24, 2011)
When I climbed into bed, the sheets felt like thin strips of refrigeration. I pulled the comforter up to my ears and shivered as I waited for my body to... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Dec 14, 2011)
Cable’s Home and Garden Television (HGTV) appears to have a new reality show about what happens when the government buys itself the right to tell you what to do.
In... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Dec 07, 2011)
Chicago news anchor Robin Robinson probably should expect to find some coal in her stocking this year. At least that’s the consensus of most of the folks who learn about her... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Nov 23, 2011)
Putting our fingers to the wind being a national pastime, Harris Interactive has quantified thankfulness for 2011.
In a survey conducted last month of 2,463 adults, only... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Nov 09, 2011)
Halloween came and went, but Marion Salmon Hedges wasn’t able to hand out the hundreds of dollars worth of candy she purchased for the underprivileged children who annually... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Nov 02, 2011)
If my email is any indication, the great divide in our nation is not between the haves and the have-nots, but between the literate and the folks who never learned the... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Oct 26, 2011)
If there’s one thing virtually everyone can agree on, it’s that bullying is bad.
In fact, a recent survey commissioned by Care.com, a caregiver referral company, revealed... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Oct 20, 2011)
Call it an occupational hazard, but I can’t look at the Occupy Wall Street protesters without thinking, “Who parented these people?”
As a culture... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Oct 12, 2011)
I hate to say it, but watching the various YouTube videos of the Occupy Wall Street protests and reading accounts of protesters' goals and "demands,"
prompts me to shake my... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Oct 05, 2011)
If you’ve been too busy holding down a job (or two), juggling the demands of a busy family, engaging in community service, and occasionally taking the wife and kids out for a... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Sep 28, 2011)
Barely enough time has passed for bologna sandwiches to begin rotting in school lockers, yet the 2011-2012 school year is shaping up to be one of the stinkiest ever, if we’re... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Sep 21, 2011)
Here’s a pop quiz:
What percentage of elementary school children in Washington, DC public schools is proficient in math? What about... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Sep 14, 2011)
Last week while thousands of children were outfitted in their "Sunday best" attire to attend memorial services for their parents, victims of the Sept.... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Sep 07, 2011)
Backpack? Check.
Transformers lunchbox? Check.
Leftist political Kool-Aid? Check.
Looks like the school year can begin.
This week, millions of American children... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Aug 31, 2011)
Ok, fess up. Are you a good parent or a bad one?
Last week, bad parents were all over the news, so if you weren’t plastered throughout the media for pouring hot sauce down... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Aug 10, 2011)
Among last week’s troubling headlines: ” ‘Jersey Shore’ scores most-watched season premiere ever: Opener drew 8.8 million total viewers.”
Apparently, last Thursday night,... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Aug 03, 2011)
When my daughter was researching prospective colleges and universities a few years ago, she claimed for a time that her No. 1 choice was a world-famous Jesuit university... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Jul 20, 2011)
I'm working the refreshment tent this week at the music festival in my hometown, putting in my volunteer hours for our children's school, when I realize I am not... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Jul 13, 2011)
Benjamin Franklin said, “Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, it is forbidden because it is hurtful.”
Someone ought to hang that quote in every... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Jul 06, 2011)
In May, a Toronto couple made international news when they revealed what they’re not revealing: the gender of their baby, Storm.
Parents Kathy Witterick and... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Jun 29, 2011)
Earlier this month, NBC reminded us of the power of good television.
In the opening segment launching its coverage of the final round of the U.S. Open Golf Championship,... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Jun 22, 2011)
For years, I have arduously avoided the one topic that most certainly will incite a reader riot. However, I find I can stay silent no longer.
The issue? Spanking.
As... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Jun 15, 2011)
It must be said: Rep. Anthony D. Weiner is what’s wrong with America today.
Once again, when confronted with behavior that clearly speaks to the character of a man’s... more
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Marybeth Hicks (May 18, 2011)
I have to confess my initial reaction to the headline was to roll my eyes in contempt for yet another government entity that I assumed was trying to legislate good parenting.... more
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Marybeth Hicks (May 11, 2011)
You hardly could blame Prince Charles for the raspy voice with which he lectured the students of Georgetown University last week, what with his speech on sustainable food... more
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Marybeth Hicks (May 04, 2011)
Like every other American, I remember with crystal clarity where I was and what I was doing the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
My children were off school for a teacher... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Apr 27, 2011)
It’s a minor issue, really, but when you think about it, the decay of a nation happens a little at a time.
Last week, bowing to pressure from the American Civil Liberties... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Apr 20, 2011)
A month ago, President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama hosted a summit to focus attention on the national bullying crisis.
Convened at the White House by the U.S.... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Apr 13, 2011)
The school lunch debate took center stage this week with a Chicago Tribune story about a public school on the city’s West Side that prohibits children from bringing lunches... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Apr 06, 2011)
First, Amy “Tiger Mom” Chua caused a national stir by accusing Western parents of being too lax in their approach to child-rearing, resulting in... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Mar 30, 2011)
It would be so much easier to pray if God would get a Twitter account. Or at least a Facebook page.
And how much more effective would our prayers be if we simply could... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Mar 23, 2011)
It’s that time of year — time for teachers to infuse some life into the curriculum with that reliable instructional tool: the educational video.
Those of us who rode... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Mar 16, 2011)
You could argue that the iconic advice columnist, the late “Ann Landers,” was single-handedly responsible for America’s rising divorce rates since the 1960s, thanks to her... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Mar 09, 2011)
Last week, while Wisconsin’s 14 renegade Democratic state senators continued to wash their socks and underwear in a hotel sink in a “principled” standoff to avoid voting on ... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Mar 02, 2011)
Filed under “Typical Media Bias Against Religion,” the theatrical release last week of the cop drama “The Grace Card” garnered this one-line summary on the movie site... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Feb 23, 2011)
Let’s play Guess the Country. I’ll describe a scenario, and you guess where it happened.
A mother goes to the grocery store for 30 minutes, leaving her 14-year-old son to... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Feb 16, 2011)
I told you so, Billy Ray Cyrus, but you wouldn’t listen.
In 2007, I wrote a column about the iconic (because of the mullet) Billy Ray Cyrus and his famous daughter, Miley,... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Feb 09, 2011)
Civility is making the headlines lately, but if you dig a bit deeper, barbarism is the real story.
To wit: Last month, MSNBC.com carried this story from Reno, NV: “Six... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Feb 02, 2011)
Admittedly, the Egyptian uprising, the nullification of Obamacare and the ongoing ramifications of "Snowpocolypse 2011" could render the controversy about an MTV original... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Jan 26, 2011)
At long last, there’s a national best-selling book that offers practical and proven advice on many of the social ills that plague our nation.
This book explains with... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Jan 19, 2011)
She's opinionated. She's controversial. She's a grizzly mama. And her outspoken comments about certain Americans are generating Twitter memes and death threats.
She's not... more
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Marybeth Hicks (Jan 12, 2011)
If a picture is worth a thousand words, the photographs of 9-year-old Christina Taylor-Green and her alleged killer, 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner, may speak volumes about... more