Parenting

By the age of four, your child has developed honor, integrity, discipline, morals, and a relationship with God that they need more and more as they grow up. This means you have to consistently be the adult you want them to be one day. How is this possible? Enough sleep, mom friends, meditation, working out, [...]

I would say, age 2. Warnings of the terrible 2’s are not an urban legend. The demanding, the crying, the shouting, the absolute refusal to behave, and then getting away with it -this is when children learn they can control the parents. I’ll never forget being at the grocery store, and a 4-year old [...]

No news to parents: the New York Times reports that having kids is detrimental to your health, sex life, sleep, earning power, and mental health if it depends upon adult conversations. Of course, it’s also exhilarating, hilarious, captivating, and filled with wonder. The trick isn’t what you get out of it, but what you put [...]

When tragedy hits, fear ignites--especially when it happens in our children’s lives. Returning to normal life after something terrible has happened isn’t easy, but there are ways we can help our kids get back on track to feeling safe, aware, and courageous.

As parents, we’re so focused on providing the perfect childhood that we forget adulthood looms. We hover over our kids twenty four hours a day, we protect our kids from every imaginable harm, we cry with our kids when they’re hurting, we provide our kids with the best of everything, we run interference for our [...]

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the [...]

Being a dad means asking the teenage cashier with face jewelry if she babysits in her spare time. You love your child, you really, really, love her but all you want is a simple two or three hours alone with your wife who is beginning to mumble to herself in baby talk. You dream [...]

There’s little doubt rich kids get all the goodies: the cell phones by age four; spa treatments at six, private schools, BMW’s for turning sixteen, ski trips to Aspen, cushy jobs with the family company even though you have the math skills of a cocker spaniel. It’s enough to make you want Bill Gates [...]

Where does the time go for parents? No news to parents: the New York Times reports that having kids is detrimental to your health, sex life, sleep, earning power and mental health if it depends upon adult conversations. Of course, it’s also exhilarating, hilarious, captivating and filled with wonder. The trick isn’t what you [...]