Homemade Tomato Sauce (Recipes Kids Should Know How to Cook Before Leaving Home)
Homemade tomato sauce is a great recipe to teach your kids before they leave home – here’s how!
Homemade tomato sauce is a great recipe to teach your kids before they leave home – here’s how!
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.
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?
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.
A reader asks how to help a teen stick out a difficult activity when the other kids are making things unpleasant.
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.
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.
Turning 45 forced me to accept that ominous “middle age” label, and to think about what matters to me now (and what has changed over time).
It can be a bummer to let a babysitter go (and have to find a new one!) but sometimes it can be an important life lesson for your children.
We list some ways that parents can use back-to-school shopping as a lesson in money management by putting the kids in charge of their own budgets!
A mom asks how she can help her teen son in the wake of a bungle and subsequent blow-up with his girlfriend.
When heading out for your family trip this summer, be sure to pack your swimsuit, your books, and your expectations. That’ll make it a good trip for everyone.
I overreacted in a stressful situation and took it out on teenage camp counselors. What happened next is where the life lessons came in… for my family.
“I feel like I don’t belong here.” She said. Her words hit me like a punch to the gut. How could I just get up and leave her in a place where she felt so alone?
Saying goodbye to a family pet is always difficult but we share one family’s story about difficult decisions and their focus on treating their pet humanely.
What I learned when I stopped hovering and started giving my partner some room to be the parent they always were.