‘You can be smart, you can be beautiful, but if you don’t know how to treat people, if you don’t walk into a room and say hello, if you...

I get up early. I get up early because I crave quiet. In the morning, before the boys are awake -- all 4, including the big one -- my...

Have you ever stopped to listen to yourself when you are spending some time with your kids? Try to really focus, next time you’re...

There’s giving your kid the space and tools (proverbial and literal) to learn and grow and develop and then there is negligence by being...

Let me show you another way. Sometimes, the words you use (or don’t use) say everything. Sometimes the tone and the delivery give an...

One of the hardest things you’ll ever do as a parent is not pass on your likes or dislikes. Can’t stand spinach? Don’t like tomatoes? ...

A repost. I think a well-timed one. As I wrote to my friend, how did we get to this point where killing people was a way to make a...

‘Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and...

I did what every Parenting authority, what every magazine, what every counselor tells you not to do: I caved. Why? I just couldn’t take...

United we stand, divided they walk all over us There is truth to the saying that a united front will be stronger than two individuals. ...

Have you ever gone into your kids’ classroom, and watched in awe as 17+ little people follow the teacher’s instructions without...

The quickest way to change your child’s behavior is to first change your own. Fact: If you are playing tic-tac-toe, and you go second,...

I have a confession and I want to tell you about my a-ha moment recently. Confession: Sometimes what I tell you that you 'should' do is...

Sometimes, some of the hardest moments in parenting come when we ourselves – those who are supposed to be in the know – are floundering. ...

You know that feeling you have when you have the kind of day when you’ve had an amazing workout and have all sorts of lovely endorphins...

#1 (That’s you!) 1. You listen. When your child comes to you with a problem or an idea, you stop what you are doing, look at your...

Thought #1 - Pursue something big. Fall down sometimes. Get back up and do it again until you reach that something big. Thought # 2 -...

It’s the New Year’s resolution time. What to do, what to do. What to change, what to change. Whether you vow to give up your vices (oh,...

Wishing you and yours a joyful, family-filled, completely entertaining holiday, with child-like glee (for you and for them) and...

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound...