Betsy Hart is a nationally syndicated columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service. Her column on cultural and family issues, "From the Hart," is distributed each week to hundreds of newspapers cross the country. It regularly appears in The Chicago Sun-Times, The Denver Rocky Mountain News, The Boston Herald, The Washington Times and many other major papers. Betsy's first book, "It Takes a Parent: How the Culture of Pushover Parenting is Hurting out Kids - and What to do About It," was released in September, 2005, and was a top seller for its publisher, Putnam Books. It was endorsed by Bill Bennett, Laura Ingraham, Kate O'Beirne, and other leading public figures, and received tremendous media attention and praise. Echoing the acclaim, Sean Hannity told his audience when Betsy appeared on FOX's Hannity and Colmes show, "I love this book!" Betsy hosts her own radio program featuring commentary and common sense insights on parenting and family life. Her new show, "It Takes a Parent," is featured on Chicago's WYLL/AM1160 radio, a 50,000 watt Salem Communications owned station, on Thursdays at 2:00 pm. Betsy is already a frequent guest on television and radio. She often appears on the FOX News Channel and other television and radio networks offering her insights on the news events of the day. Articles about Betsy have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, The Washington Times, Maclean's, The Ladies Home Journal and other publications. And in an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Betsy was featured as one of America's top five women columnists. Previously, Betsy served on the White House staff in the Reagan Administration in the press office. Betsy is raising her four young children in the suburbs of Chicago. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BetsyHart http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BetsyHart TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2008 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:28:48 GMT Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:28:48 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ "Fewer Mothers Prefer Full-time Work" blared the headline of the recent Pew Research Center study. As the respected Pew folks put it, "In the span of the past decade, full-time work outside the home has lost some of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BetsyHart/2007/08/14/there_needs_to_be_a_middle_ground_on_mothering 21023613-0f26-4859-9a99-59aaccfc5717 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:28:48 GMT Why am I not surprised? Second hand obesity has now been documented. That according to a study just out in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, and funded by the National Institute on Aging. AP... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BetsyHart/2007/08/07/a_little_fat_between_friends_is__too_much d0a31281-d5a0-4209-b5e6-5a8a895fa0c2 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:36:21 GMT When was the last time your kids said to you, "Mom, how was your day?" "What did you do?" "Dad, so how was work?" "What's something interesting that happened to you today?" Alvin Rosenfeld, a Manhattan-based... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BetsyHart/2007/07/31/conversations_at_home_dont_have_to_be_all_about_the_kids e52d7d80-3590-4ef9-bf11-25e1cf616328 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:01:00 GMT Paris Hilton says that being in lockup for a few weeks was traumatic. I think being shot at in Iraq would be traumatic - not taking a little time off from having every whim satisfied on a whim. Nonetheless, different... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BetsyHart/2007/06/29/taking_paris_seriously 426d0a9f-450a-41e5-ba1b-39e26961aa3a Fri, 29 Jun 2007 04:01:00 GMT I just watched the classic Hitchcock thriller, "The Birds" with my older kids. It made me think about Father's Day. Seriously. "Mitch" (the very gorgeous Rod Taylor) is the ultimate manly man and something w http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BetsyHart/2007/06/15/we_need_more_strong_men 29f23a68-e3f1-4d09-bb84-a22e2db49586 Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:01:00 GMT Here's my summer plan: Wait, back up. Four kids, three animals. (Did I mention I recently adopted a 2-year-old shepherd mix and two kittens? Yes, it's crazy. More on that later.) And me. Ten weeks. That's why I... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BetsyHart/2007/06/08/surviving_summer_with_four_kids_and_three_animals 533c4ae0-fb4d-4b83-84cb-266c69a3f511 Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:45:47 GMT For this year's college graduates the commencement speeches may be over but typically the enslavement to debt has just begun. New grads and their parents are being strapped by staggering debt, sometimes owing six... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BetsyHart/2007/05/31/how_to_avoid_massive_college_debt 60fd4768-b6f2-44ac-980d-df9968176adb Thu, 31 May 2007 18:35:17 GMT The arrival of June means wedding season and that means flowers and elaborate dresses and ... choreographers? Well yes, Jennifer Saranow writes in The Wall Street Journal. In "The First Dance Spins Out of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BetsyHart/2007/05/24/all_about_me_weddings 4d81b122-98fe-48ca-9db0-f23fd11ab7bd Thu, 24 May 2007 18:29:08 GMT "Shrek the Third" opens this weekend, and my four kids and I can't wait. Of course, we didn't have to wait. We see him -- Shrek --all over the grocery store, for starters. The lovable, hugely overweight ogre has been... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BetsyHart/2007/05/17/shrek_wrong_symbol_for_anti-obesity 94fce868-1da6-418f-bef6-e1f8361c8757 Thu, 17 May 2007 18:25:51 GMT In honor of Mother's Day, I'm enlisting with the "slacker moms," as USA Today described us this week. In, "'Slacker Moms' Urge Other Mothers to Chill," Sharon Jayson describes the new version of the "mommy wars." She... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BetsyHart/2007/05/10/alpha_moms_vs_common_sense_moms a15619ac-0eea-47b1-a798-3a1b037084bf Thu, 10 May 2007 18:22:40 GMT Now that it's getting warm, look for church attendance to drop even more. That's the implication of an article in the current issue of the Baptist Press. Why? Because as Erin Roach reports, sports and other... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BetsyHart/2007/05/03/church_vs_soccer_on_a_sunday_morning b3d47dcc-94e8-4f62-bf5d-57b0af09b29f Thu, 03 May 2007 18:19:38 GMT "Methinks the lady doth protest too much" is one reaction I had to Leslie Bennetts' whiny new book, "The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much?" (Voice/Hyperion press). Bennetts essentially argues that any... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BetsyHart/2007/04/26/feminine_mistake_has_good_points,_but_lacks_balance f9876c4d-a58a-4046-a344-673774739c9c Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:17:11 GMT Ah, for the unerring wisdom of a child ... "It's just the two of us," said one single-mom physician in Manhattan of her daughter, age 11. "That makes her more like a partner in some ways than a child." That's the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BetsyHart/2007/04/19/parents_should_keep_their_role e94641b8-2c89-41f6-a911-073633db594b Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:13:52 GMT So that explains it. I recently returned from a four-day trip to warm sandy beaches with nine _ yes, nine _ women friends I've known since high school. Not to be too specific, but that means almost 30 years. (FYI,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BetsyHart/2007/04/12/the_value_of_friendships_among_women dc066675-0721-4644-b13c-9efb4f80b00b Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:10:52 GMT I like classical music. Not as much as I like Rod Stewart classics, mind you, but well enough. But I never bought into the notion, prevalent throughout my four children's babyhood, that there was a small window of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BetsyHart/2007/04/05/parenting_magic_only_takes_mom__dad f23e4ab6-cae7-4839-9f51-db07fcfc6a2c Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:07:26 GMT