Tag: PARENTING

Divorce is a wound. I will not prettify it into something fashionable or therapeutic. Some losses remain losses forever. The best you can do is refuse to let them become the only story your children inherit.

And there it is, the thing about raising children that nobody warns you about sufficiently: the milestones that matter most arrive without fanfare, tucked inside ordinary afternoons.

In the midst of change and upheaval, who will teach our children?

There’s criticism that CHOOSE applicants are overwhelmingly white or overwhelmingly from higher-income areas, leaving lower-income, minority students stranded in a failing system. But once the CHOOSE application opens to families of any income, there will be no barrier – except parents.

Perhaps this is the lesson golf was trying to teach me all along: that love, true love, means stepping back far enough to let people become themselves.

When Mom and son reach the stairs of the slide, they are shouting in make-believe voices. Making more explosion sounds. But the boy breaks character for a brief moment. And in a voice that is small and sincere, he says, “I love you so much, Mom.”

Love is not the absence of breaking but the promise to keep building and believing that something can be made whole even after it has shattered.

The study lists the stereotypical masculine characteristics – “competitive, daring, adventurous, dominant, aggressive, courageous and standing up to pressure” – as positive traits, and fathers who demonstrated these were “rated as showing good parenting behavior.”

Many Americans are seeing the need to move away from the secular neutrality we’ve practiced in recent decades and instead plant the flag through spiritual grounding and Christian beliefs. Doing so is not as hard as we make it out to be.

Frankly, raising children in a society where children are deemed a nuisance and parents naive for having them is a lonely task.

What used to be a sweet, intimate celebration of life has turned into an over-the-top production full of pressure, cost, and sky-high expectations.

Resist the spirit of the age, and you just may raise the leaders of the next generation.

If parents have given their children the tools to make wise financial decisions, then they must also step back and resist the temptation to bail them out when they make poor ones.

Childhood itself is at stake here. The playing fields of the imagination are being rapidly replaced by digitalized games, social media, and the artifice of screens.   

Churches, coaches, mentors, teachers, extended family and friends: all can help children grow in virtue and avoid falling prey to our toxic culture. But mom and dad are the chief educators of their children.

Whatever the case, if you’ve found yourself considering homeschooling, you’ve probably considered all of the other options and feel a little overwhelmed. Where do you even start the process?

The “Father of American Scholarship and Education,” Noah Webster, gives us some practical tips on child-rearing.

Not long ago, a video circulated on social media highlighting the difference between the parenting styles of baby boomers and millennials. For the millennial mother, everything was about being gentle.

If even our brains are biologically male and female, are we merely selling ourselves a line when we say that our sex is fluid and can be what ever we feel it should be?

There’s something magical about Saturdays in the fall when you’re in Tuscaloosa, Ala. For me, however, this experience is not just about the game.

Let us rise to the challenge and safeguard the freedoms that define us as a nation. Stand up, and Fight, Fight, Fight!

Childhood is nothing but a continual buzz. A non-stop adventure novel.

From baby’s first wine cooler to an afterschool Bud Light for your middle schooler, this store made certain our youngest drinkers can find the right drink for them.

A mother's love is the cornerstone of our existence.

Parents, you, not today's experts, are exactly who God wants to lead your kids. He will give you what you need when you need it. 

Parents are taking a stand, showing up unafraid to school board meetings, council meetings, and library gatherings. Complacency has taken a back seat to courage and parents are on a mission!

When are we going to realize that it is not the duty of the church to raise our children?