An excerpt from Boys Should Be Boys

“Briefly, here are some tips on how to raise healthy and happy boys–boys who are honest, courageous, humble, meek (in the sense of willingly withholding their power), and kind.…

Today I thought I’d post a discussion that I had a few months ago about how parents can talk and positively influence their children’s views on difficult subjects such as premarital sex.

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A friend of mine shared this Halloween story with me and it really made me smile.  It’s heartwarming, but it’s also a great parenting lesson.

When her now-adult daughter was a little girl, she wanted nothing more than to be …

My heart is broken. I buried my mother and my best friend last week and I feel as though a truck has driven through the middle of me.

My mother and I had one of those relationships where store clerks …

Here’s a hard lesson to learn: contentment will never come if we continually look
outward at the next thing we want to get. Read that again.  Contentment will never come if we continually look outward at the next thing we …

The only difference between us grown ups and our children is that they are allowed to express their needs because they are still young. But just because we grow older doesn’t mean that our needs diminish. They simply morph …

I have found myself repeating to parents over the years: never parent out of fear.

Then I wondered to myself, have I been saying this all along and never realized it or has something about parenting changed? I believe that …

What does your son or daughter do that makes you proud? It can be a story about something they did or maybe it’s something they said. Maybe they just have a positive outlook or a sunny disposition.  You can also …

The explosion of STDs among our children is a hidden epidemic.

Still not convinced? I’ll let the facts speak for me:

• This year, 8 to 10 million teens will contract an STD
• Nearly one in four sexually active teens is

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Dear Meg: What’s the healthiest breakfast for kids to have so that their minds are sharp and they don’t get hungry?

Breakfast is very important for all kids because it helps them concentrate at school. When they eat a combination …