I would never, ever go back to middle school.
Not in a million years.
And not if you paid me a million dollars.
But there are a million things I learned in those three years, so while I can’t spare my own daughters the growing pains that come...
You might think I’m going to tell you that all you have to do to have a great day is to begin your day thinking of all the blessings that you’ve been given.
You might think I’m going to tell you that there’s always someone experiencing...
According to Rick Weissbourd of the Making Caring Common Project, research shows that people deal best with problems when they “convert passivity into activity.”
That’s not always easy for families to figure out, though.
With all the tough things kids are dealing with today, we don’t even...
A new lesson I'm learning is how to savor the everyday moments. One of my kids brought home a yearbook called Reflections, and I understand why. Reflections are memories. I like remembering, especially when the memories are happy, but I also don't want to spend...
Growing up, I spent most of my childhood in an imaginary world I created in my head--daydreaming about the kind of job I would one day have (an actress), the house I would one day own (mansion in Beverly Hills), and the hunky movie star...
Forever We has been selling and giving dolls since the end of September. It's been almost seven months, and already three of our little girls have received their angel wings--great days for them, sad ones for us.
I read a couple of news articles that were...
They say you don’t really discover who you are until you’re in your 20s. But what if it was possible to have a strong sense of self a full decade before that? How would that change the awkward middle school years? Would college cease to...
When I first began writing the series on Purposeful Parenting, my intention was to give parents a framework for understanding and relating to their kids. What I thought would be a hard core focus on intentional parenting turned out instead to be a commentary on...
You're a parent. You're worn out. You get up early, you go to bed late, you feel like you're always doing something for somebody else. People need to go places and everybody has to eat. Always, the eating. Do you ever wonder when someone is...
Today's post is a little something I learned from a little guy with a big personality. His name is Robby, a.k.a. Kid President, and I've never met him in real life. But if I do ever get the chance to meet him, I'll probably...