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Is This the Future of American Values?

February 7th, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor In researching my next parenting book, I came across several recent studies that I found truly disturbing. As you will see shortly, the results don’t paint a pretty picture for the future of our children or our society as a whole. Even more damning is what it tells us about how […]

Articles written by Dr. Jim Taylor
Tags: children, entertainment, parenting, popular culture, TV, tweens, values
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I Don’t Care about LeBron James or Lindsay Lohan or…

September 21st, 2010

By Dr. Jim Taylor Boy am I glad that the media feeding frenzy over the ill-advised LeBron James/ESPN cluster@#&%, “The Decision,” is long past. It just demonstrated what we should have assumed all along, namely, that behind that façade of loyal and humble Cleveland homeboy was the usual narcissistic superstar athlete that we have come […]

Articles written by Dr. Jim Taylor
Tags: culture, entertainment, Lebron James, Lindsay Lohan, narcissism, values
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So Long, Old Pal

October 24th, 2009

Soupy Sales (Jan 8, 1926 – Oct 22, 2009) was a local market celebrity on WXYZ television in Detroit back in the fifties and sixties. His first program was a thirty-minute spot at mid-day, and every kid from Detroit to Flint had lunch with Soupy. He’d show up on the old black and white Philco […]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: entertainment, kids, Soupy Sales, TV shows
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