Sometimes the best thing for our kids’ growth is the hardest thing for us.

Be the embarrassing generation until these adolescents turn into adults who can take their turn.

Take the vacation. Return to your peaceful place. Refill your cup.

Happy Mother’s Day 2022

One of the greatest lessons we can teach our kids is to choose good friends.

It’s a pretty simple commandment. It doesn’t say “love one another only if they are like you.”

The parenting seeds we plant will someday bloom. Hopefully the good will outweigh the not-so-good.

Some days I am the dumper, and some days I am the receiver of an emotional dump.

Images of children and families in wartime elicit universal parental anguish.

Help answer your four-year-old’s questions in a way that will make you proud of your teenager’s words.

It’s the rejections that make our children dig deeper to see if the dream is worth fighting for.

To the parents of young children, one day you’ll be ugly crying, too.

When I find myself in the Bitter Barn (my old friend), I need to find a window to look outward.

It starts with a diaper bag and ends with a stocked minivan, but there comes a day we can’t pack all they need.

Enjoy the costumes and carnivals and trick-or-treating while they last.

The skills that have made us successful thus far are not necessarily the skills we need for parenting.

The lessons you teach along the way finally come to fruition on a field of sweaty teens.