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At some point during childhood, every child is asked the question, “What would you like to be when you grow up?” Their answers are usually entertaining and unique. Many dream of becoming something really exciting or different – such as a professional athlete, astronaut, movie star, video game designer, pirate, candy taste-tester, and more. Their ideas are usually quite brilliant, ...

Getting kids excited about history isn’t easy, especially in an age of video games, tablets and smartphones. It seems there are distractions everywhere! But as Robert Skead tells us in today’s episode of Words of Wisdom, parents can instill a passion for history within their children – and it’s not that difficult.

Thomas is a brave young man living in a dystopian world full of desolate cities, rusted cars and blowing tumbleweed. He’s also one of the few healthy people left on the planet, which makes he and his friends – who also are healthy – curiosities to society. That’s because something called the “flare virus” has ravaged the population, turning anyone ...

Liam Page is a world-famous country singer who has everything the world can offer: big houses, beautiful women, and fans who idolize his every move. Yet despite his wealth, he often thinks about Josie, the fiancé he abandoned on their wedding day eight years earlier in their hometown of St. Augustine, La, when he was young and immature. It seems ...

Paddington 2 writer and director Paul King calls himself a fan of Charlie Chaplin films, Pixar movies and the Wallace and Gromit clay animation series – all projects that feature innocent humor that can make the whole family laugh. Such clean humor was his goal for the 2014 hit Paddington (PG) and also for the new movie Paddington 2 (PG), ...

Phineas is a hard-working husband and father who has a flare for creativity and innovation. Right now, though, he’s unemployed and just needs a job to feed his two daughters in 1800s America. Desperate, he risks everything and borrows $10,000 to open a downtown museum of “oddities.” It’ll have everything not seen in other museums – even wax figures and ...

Nazi Germany is on the move, but everyone in 1940 Britain can rest easy. Winston Churchill is finally at the helm as prime minister. If it were only that simple. The courageous and resolute Churchill we’ve learned about in history books is certainly courageous and resolute in Darkest Hour (PG-13) – a biographical movie now in theaters – but he ...

Martha, Bethany, Fridge and Spencer are an eclectic group of high school students with only one thing in common: They’re all serving in detention. That’s what happens when you smart off to the teacher (as Martha and Bethany did) or cheat on a paper (Fridge and Spencer). You’re then forced to clean out the school basement, which is filled with ...

Miguel is a gifted and energetic boy with big dreams of becoming a famous singer just like his idol, the late Ernesto de la Cruz. Miguel’s family, though, doesn’t share his passion for music. In fact, they hate it. That’s because Miguel’s great-great grandfather – also a singer — traded his family for his musical career, and they haven’t seen ...

It can be challenging to get a child committed to a daily personal devotion. What, then, is a Christian parent to do? Pastor and author David Murray asked that same question several years back – and he did something about it. Murray authored “Exploring the Bible: A Bible Reading Plan for Kids (Crossway),” in which he presents a simplified way ...