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5 Easy Parenting Resolutions
Here are 5 do-able resolutions that can help you and your family make the most of the coming year.
1. Ambush Your Kids With Something Positive Every Day
I was recently speaking at an elementary school when one of the parents asked about consequences…
5 Things Every Husband (and Father) Should Know
As this week marks the thirty-sixth year of my marriage, I thought I’d try to offer some of the little lessons I have learned through co-habitation.
None of us is entitled to the “perfect” partner. We just don’t come out of the box…
The Parent Questionnaire
Our own life experience is our greatest parenting resource. In my book, Raising Children That Other People Like to be Around”, I suggest that parenting is like driving a cab: if you don’t at least ACT like you know the way, your passengers…
3 SIMPLE SAYINGS
My mom would have been ninety-two last week. Here are three gems she left me:
Don’t be so open minded that your brain falls out.
All of us have been in situations where our better nature overrides our common sense. I’ve loaned money…
HOLIDAY HEADS UP
It’s November now, the month of Thanksgiving (one of my two faves (4th of July being the other)).
November is also the month when our children start rehearsing seriously for their school Holiday Programs. Singing, dancing, holding signs…
MY 5 SIMPLE “MUSTS”
I wrote "Raising Children That Other People Like to be Around" to guide parents toward a better understanding of their roles - as moms and dads, as well as parenting partners - because the core strength of a family comes from the leadership…
MILEY ‘N’ ME
ME N MILEY
Everybody was tweaked about Miley Cyrus and her apparently quite lucrative twerking display, but I see a far more interesting phenomena occurring on a daily basis.
I’m going to start at the beginning.
When I was a kid my parents…
THE EMPTY NEST – FINALLY !
I’m a guy. I like my space. I like my stuff. I love my wife.
For the first time in thirty three years I have them all back to myself.
Yes, the Dropoff at school was successful and it appears our adorable daughter will merge into…
100% MAXIMUM LOVE
I have a friend who feels that when her little brother was born, he “stole” all the love and affection that her parents had previously been giving to her.
I suspect that this is a common feeling among first-born children. In this case,…
WE’RE NEWLYWEDS !!
Before we get to the Newlywed Thing... As many of you know, our youngest child, and only daughter, is leaving for college tomorrow. This photo represents how the males in our family feel about that. Note that their mother is not in the picture…