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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 made it! Summer is FINALLY upon us. Welcome to the smell of driveway campfires and fresh cut lawn. Before you know it, you may even be hearing ice cream trucks playing that one song [...]

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 [...]

What did you used to be scared of that you aren’t scared of anymore? For me, it was the dark. I used to sprint like an Olympian to take the garbage out growing up. I remember even counting the [...]

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 [...]

I've never shared this publicly, but I have a super power. I can enter any museum, zoo or aquarium in the world with my family and go through it in 30 minutes. The trick is to tell my family, [...]

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 [...]

There are some things that I'm just not good at. I once had to ask my father-in-law for help changing my wiper blades. Not "Dad, can you spare a twelve-gauge crescent wrench so I can [...]

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 [...]