This Christmas season, I want to remember the value of hard work and minimum wage.

Whatever you’re serving, I wish you peace and gratitude this year.

It’s a strange ritual, but I can understand why my dogs roll in the family laundry.

Costumes, characters and stories give important life lessons to our kids.

Lessons in parenting from a 1991 Olympics semi-final race.

Having our kids handle what they can is an important life skill. But they can’t handle everything every day.

As our kids test boundaries, there will be days that they win, and days that we win.

Investing in education is a commitment to a brighter, healthier generation.

Here we go into another school year. Remember that positive, exciting stress is still stress when you’re growing up.

One of the biggest challenges in parenting is sending our kids down a road we didn’t choose for them.

A whole generation of parents is flooded with emotions as our kids become adults.

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.