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Primerrily Library

While the Library of Congress serves as the national library of the United States,

the Library of Primerrily serves as the library of this community! Here is where you can find all of our past posts testifying to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In these archives, it is self-evident that American families -- from sea to shining sea -- are passing on these values and ideals to our next generation.

Parents' Back to School – 3 Tips to Help You be a Student of Your Kids

Primerrily Crew Contributor

2 min

Parents' Back to School – 3 Tips to Help You be a Student of Your Kids

I thought I had my kids pretty well figured out, but they’ve surprised me recently. Some of those surprises have been pleasant...

Primerrily Crew Contributor

2 min

Salutes to Three Dads We Love

We’ve noted before that we want to raise the low expectations people typically have of dads. This means more than noting guys who drag...

Chris Horst

2 min

Making Kindness King

On the basketball court, in the swimming pool, and at parent-teacher conferences, I’m hungry to see my kids thriving. Thriving, of...

Want your kids to build character at school? Try these 3 recs

Primerrily Crew Contributor

4 min

Want your kids to build character at school? Try these 3 recs

We’ve all heard (from the media and from our kids) a lot about bullying -- the kind on the playground and the kind in cyberspace. Often...

Make Your Kids Better Americans: Take Them to the Store

Britt Riner

10 min

Make Your Kids Better Americans: Take Them to the Store

Taking kids to the store with you has never been more of a challenge. In this article, we'll give you five reasons why we think it's...

The Case for Common Humanity Over Critical Race Theory in K-12 Education

Primerrily Crew Contributor

7 min

The Case for Common Humanity Over Critical Race Theory in K-12 Education

We’d like to think that our kids are too young to be exposed to the “grown-up” current climate of political polarization, racial tension,...

Reality Is Outpacing Satire in Woke America: Do You Have Whiplash, Too?

A.J. Grey

11 min

Reality Is Outpacing Satire in Woke America: Do You Have Whiplash, Too?

Woke absurdities are taking over culture -- including that of our kids' classrooms, bookshelves, and toy chests -- faster than we can...

Britt Riner

3 min

Try This for Sweet (American) Dreams

What do you dream about? Is it difficult for you to dream sweet dreams, let alone rest easy, given what we hear on the nightly news or...

Allison Lee Pillinger Choi

6 min

The Multi-Dimension Mama Archetypes

Primerrily parents once had a funny and fascinating chat about the relevance, complexities, and frustrations of the various types and...

Believing In More Than Yourself Gets You Your Best Self

Primerrily Crew Contributor

3 min

Believing In More Than Yourself Gets You Your Best Self

One of Primerrily’s Primers is the belief that a transcendent order (a fancy phrase for believing in something greater than yourself,...