As I sit down to write this article I am reminded of the awesome honour of being a parent. God has granted me the privilege of raising three of His special little ones, but with the privilege comes great responsibility and a lot of hard work. Perhaps more than any other area of life, parenting brings with it the capacity both for boundless joy and...

When last have you taken time to dream? When last have you consciously allowed your thoughts to go places you won't normally venture? What if, today, you allowed yourself to go into every nook and cranny of your ideal self, your ideal life, your ideal world? What would that even look like? What would it feel like? Today, let's move into those...

Do you remember what it was like waiting for your parents to read your report card? I remember it not always being a pleasant experience. Especially if I knew there was a low grade on it. I can see it in the eyes of my children on report card day when I get home from work. Their eyes are either twinkling with excitement or downcast with uncertainty....

Do your children know what a good parent is? Most of us have kids who, at times, declare we’re the worst in the world! Occasionally we mumble it to ourselves. My Sunday school class kicked around this topic one morning. First, a mom confided, “I don’t want my son hanging around that house because I don’t think they’re good parents.” “Tell...

If you’re dreading refereeing kids’ squabbles all summer or are already at your wits' end from their tattling and tears, have faith. “Parents need to do two things to make summer fun for the kids and themselves,” says Michele Borba, Ed.D., an educational psychologist and author of Nobody Likes Me, Everybody Hates Me: The Top 25 Friendship...

Gossip has been running wild in our little town lately. Maybe the winter is too long, or the town too small. I don't know. I only know that innocent people are being cruelly hurt and good intentions are being entirely misread. This morning I took a bag of trash out to the burning barrel and lit a match to it. Several hours later I happened to...

"I'm really concerned about some of the things my kids are seeing on TV. How can we protect our family from the harmful effects of the entertainment industry?" Dave: Wow, that's a big question these days. Parents have so many more entertainment complexities to face than what parents faced even just 20 years ago. There is a myriad of potential...