You want to make sure that you spend quality time as a family. You just don't know how to fit it in with work, school, cooking, cleaning,...

I still laugh out loud when I remember the wonderful instructor. He taught martial arts and so much more. But there was one life lesson...

So simple, yet so challenging. So easy, but incredibly demanding. Straightforward but complicated. What is it about this relationship...

The family has been the building block of civilization throughout all of human history and that remains true to this day. In western...

The human brain has a remarkable relationship with music that neuroscientists have yet to fully understand. Highly respected institutions...

Investing your time and energy in your children day after day is worth the reward that comes later. Children are like gardens...you...

Somewhere between perfection, which is unattainable, and apathy, which is unacceptable, lies goodness and excellence. We can be good...

I love being a quiet observer in the homes of my young mommy friends. Ya'll are so wonderful and I admire you so much. In my mind I can...

Friendships are life giving relationships that brighten our lives with companionship and fun. Unless they don't...the art of making and...

A solid work ethic offers a lifetime of benefits for the child that has it instilled in them. The ability to work hard and persevere is...

Children who communicate have parents who have always applied this formula: Listen + Ask Good Questions + Repeat "So then she said that...

The Psalmist said, "Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him." (Psalm 127:3, NIV emphasis mine) Most parents...

All my friends with children going back to school are feeling all sorts of emotions. But at the bottom of all the feels is the deep...

Drastically reducing screen time at home nets some astonishing results. You may end up with a homemade cardboard pinball machine that...

One of my fantasies when I was a young mother was seeing my children playing in their playroom. I could see it so clearly in my mind's...

You are totally rocking out this parenting thing! Your children are cute, smart, well dressed, took a cooking class at age two (yes, they...

The instinctive love we feel for our children is nearly impossible to define. It is simply and irrefutably there. Someone hands us our...

Grandparents are so in love with their grandchildren! And what's not to love? Your children are precious and smart and beautiful in...

You have beautiful dreams for your family. Your parents, probably, have similar feelings. How do you juggle your role as parents, while...

You didn't see it coming...or maybe you did and all you could do is hang on and wait for it to pass. Before you begin to yell, "Calm...