A disturbing activity has surfaced from our tween daughters. If your daughter’s involved, you need to know. Many young girls are posting videos on YouTube asking complete strangers to pass judgment on them. You heard me: complete strangers. Old men, …

Read Chapter 7: Give and Get Love in Healthy Ways

The mystery of love is that it gives us life, but it can also throw us into a pit of pain in nanoseconds.That’s exactly why we need to stop and …

When she is a baby, her eyes will search for your face. Her ears will listen to your voice and everything inside her will need to answer only one question, “Daddy, are you here?” If you are there her body …

Have you seen the YouTube video posted by a father who shot his daughter’s laptop? You need to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jo2slZJYYk

Why did he shoot it? He was fed up with his daughter’s sense that he owed her more than he had …

Read Chapter 6: Make Time for Solitude

I know Moms that tell me they haven’t been able to use the bathroom alone in years.  Even if they shut the door, those little fingers are underneath the door, begging to get …

Today, I’m sharing an article on happiness written by author Amy Shern.  The article originally appeared here on Oprah’s website.

Someone I know once said to me, “I used to think I would be truly happy once I had published …

Read Chapter 5 in The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers

Money is another thing we don’t talk about in polite company.  How much, or how little, we and our spouses earn is a well-guarded secret.  Money is, of course, tied …

Today’s post is an adapted excerpt from Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters:

As natural as the love you feel toward your daughter might be, there will be challenges to that love, from crying squalls when she’s a baby, to kindergarten tantrums, …

Read Chapter 4 “Say NO to Competition.”

We Mothers compare ourselves with others constantly.  Whether it’s the nicer dressed woman at kindergarten drop-off that never looks frazzled, the neighbor whose children are always perfectly dressed and well-mannered, or that woman …