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Sometimes we experience what we consider to be a great moment in parenting. Have you had one recently? You might have felt it after designing the ultimate family getaway on a shoestring budget. [...]

You’ve probably heard of helicopter parenting: parents who hover everywhere their kids go, never really letting them out of sight. We certainly live in a world where this seems like our only [...]

My son didn't want to talk about it. That didn't mean I was fine with that, though. The text message I'd received about what had happened in our neighborhood really set me off. Now I was driving [...]

Oh, how I longed to be in the Brady Bunch growing up. It wasn’t that I desired to share a bedroom with two brothers or a bathroom with three sisters (with no toilet in the bathroom – seriously, I [...]

One of my best friends recently told me, "I love to sing worship songs. It's the one thing I still get to do with my daughter." His daughter passed away two years ago. But because of the [...]

Compliment my kid and I just don't know what to do. I've worked a long time to figure out how to accept compliments on my own behalf, but even with best friends and supportive strangers, there is [...]

I am a mom of a toddler and twins, which is sort of a terrifying math problem. You see, I only have two arms. Three kids, but only two legs to sit on. Three kids, but only two eyes to watch with. [...]

Out of all the jobs that have to be done around the house, which are your favorites? That's probably not a question you feel as prepared to answer as if you were asked to describe the chores that [...]

I wish I could remember exactly where I heard the radio show.  However, it has played over and again in the back of my mind since I heard it, more than a year ago. Somehow I had stumbled on some [...]

  It's what we don't see coming that scares us the most. Because suddenly, everything can change. This is the fear that we all stuff down... even when it rears its head. At any given moment, the [...]