While a child’s 18th birthday is a big deal no matter what, it’s especially meaningful to our family that our once-struggling kid is now, finally, thriving.
Sharing a few short lessons that I have learned from my children playing youth sports. I hope you will take them to heart before you sign your kid up to play.
A couple of life lessons I have learned and want to pass on to my 13-year-old daughter, Cal, before she enters high school about age and frenemies.
A parents first inclination is save our children when something goes wrong in their lives. Truth is we all learn better through making our own mistakes.
One of my teens learned a hard lesson about not always getting the apology you deserve, and I realized I have a long way to go in this area, too.
It seems like apologizing would be something easy to do, but it isn’t. So just how do you apologize? I have compiled some rules for you to follow.
If my son could write, these would be the rules by which he lives his life. If your child wrote a book of life lessons, what do you think would be in it?
I tell stories for a living, but we all tell stories to ourselves and others all day long. How can we learn to make them ones that work for us?
I’m sure there isn’t a parent out there who doesn’t want to give their child a better life than what they had. But at what cost does giving “everything” come?
I’m busy teaching my special-needs teens the things they’ll need to know when they’re off at college, but how do I teach them to recognize when they’re sick?
I should be an old hand at parenting by now, but there’s no shortage of surprises in it for me, even now. I handle it as best I can and hope the kids are okay.
Even though we’ve been incredibly lucky to have a great teacher in our lives as long as we have, saying goodbye is never easy.
The longer I parent, the more I realize how much I don’t know. It’s all a puzzle, and thankfully, I like puzzles.
A couple of life lessons I have (not) learned and want to pass on to my 13-year-old daughter, Cal, before she enters high school about basic life preparedness.
How do we switch gears from “child we provide for” to “young adult who must provide for herself” in a way that makes sense? In our case, slowly.
There’s nothing quite like a contentious election cycle to make you realize your kids are hearing and watching everything.
A mom asks how she can help her teen son in the wake of a bungle and subsequent blow-up with his girlfriend.
A couple of life lessons I want to pass down to my 13-year-old daughter, Cal, about the importance of a positive body image and the consequences of surrounding herself with people who hurt, not help, that image.
How are we, as parents, supposed to keep our kids believing they should do the right thing when they see how rewarded the bad things are?
A reader asks how to handle a teen who buys into majority politics in what she sees as extreme state, but really, the issue is teaching both critical thinking and tolerance.