Parenting

It’s so easy to believe lies. My 20-year-old daughter has been going through a rough time in college lately. She’s smart, she’s strong, and, as a scientist, she prides herself on filtering out [...]

It’s so easy to believe lies. My 20-year-old daughter has been going through a rough time in college lately. She’s smart, she’s strong, and, as a scientist, she prides herself on filtering out [...]

There’s probably a mathematical formula for determining how much more expensive our kids get as they get older. I’m no accountant, but it feels like I’ve added another zero to my kids’ annual [...]

It’s different for every parent, but at some point we all have to let our kids make their own decisions. College is perhaps the most significant time when this happens.

You’ve been dreaming of this moment since you dropped them off in August—the sweet reunion of your baby returning home from college for holiday breaks. But before your vision of a fairy tale [...]

[This article is an excerpt from a chapter in the best-selling devotional book, Release My Grip, Hope for a Parent's Heart as Kids Leave the Nest and Learn to Fly  When the Dark Clouds Roll In: [...]

Can we just have a moment of complete honesty? Being a stepmom is hard. Like really hard. It’s as if I’ve gone zero-to-elementary-school in milliseconds. But from all that I’ve heard, it’s [...]

[Note: This post is from a monthly parenting column I wrote in 2007 for my kids’ elementary school newsletter. I discovered it recently while cleaning out end-of-school clutter. (Yes, apparently [...]

Lord have mercy—it’s the night before we take our son to college. This is his last night in the bed that he’s slept in for the past 18 years. Release me from lurking around his bedroom, but I [...]

When my daughter and two sons were little I had a running list of “WHY” questions in my head that looped on auto repeat during those years. WHY does something in our house always stink like [...]

Judging by the store displays spilling into the aisles, back to school season is upon us. And if you're a parent with a soon-to-be college freshman, this back to school season may just be your [...]

[This article by Kami Gilmour is an excerpt from a chapter in her best-selling devotional book, Release My Grip, Hope for a Parent's Heart as Kids Leave the Nest and Learn to Fly  There are many [...]