There is a secret hidden in plain sight for all parents of young children: the most important—and astoundingly simple—thing you can do for your children’s future...

Did you know the average North American child now spends about seven hours a day staring at screens and mere minutes engaged in unstructured play outdoors? Yet recent...

Great teachers are amazing! The best gift we can give them involves our own parenting. The most wonderful display of our appreciation is to send them students truly ready to...

God gave all of us free will and that includes the opportunity to mess up. Failure and Success are two sides of the same coin. Drill sergeant and helicopter parents take...

In honor of Father's Day, I would like to share how my dad influenced my life. I find the words of American writer Clarence Budington Kelland sum up well what I learned from...

Death is a common theme in cartoons and television, and some of your child’s friends may have already lost a loved one. But experiencing grief firsthand is a very...

As parents, we need to realize that loving relationships give consequences their power. Consequences are opportunities for our children to learn from mistakes if we remember...

Among all the advances and changes we have seen to our world in the last thirty years, the fact is that family is important and is the most basic social unit. It has been...

I am sharing this moving story because our children/grandchildren need us to help them to have compassion and understanding in relating to those who have physical, emotional...

Young kids—namely those between the ages of 1 and 4—haven't developed good coping skills yet. They tend to just lose it instead. Children need to figure out themselves...

Play is the cornerstone of happiness and being a parent allows the opportunity to play without getting weird looks when we let our silly sides to show. So, what is on your...

What do parents do when their children become truthfulness-challenged? If many adults in today's world suffer from Honesty Deficit Disorder, who are we to think that our...