Parenting

This post: Legal or Not, Why I Don’t Want My Kids Smoking Pot (Post updated: March 2023) “Mom, you’re overreacting. It’s just not that big of a deal.” “It’s just …

“My child never seems to follow through with anything. He lacks the determination, motivation and fortitude to see things through to the end and he doesn’t seem willing to fight …

  Remember the days when our kids were toddlers, pre-schoolers and in elementary school and we thought those days were long and hard? Looking back… boy, what I wouldn’t give …

  Updated: November 2019 According to the Center’s for Disease Control and Prevention’s annual National Tobacco Survey, 27.5 percent of high school students reported using an e-cigarette within the last …

  If you’re the parent of a teenager, you’ve probably heard the term “hooking up.”  The term itself has been around for decades, but for many parents of teens, it …

This post: 15 Things Kids Should Know to Prepare Them for College The summer before my oldest daughter left for college, I was in a full-blown panic.  In a few …

This post: 18 Things Every Dad Should Say to Raise Strong Confident Daughters “Dad told us we were beautiful, that there was nothing we couldn’t accomplish, and that he would …

Wouldn’t it be amazing if we could unleash our child’s full potential by inspiring them to dream, unlocking their innovation and capitalizing on their creativity? A few years ago when …

  If I close my eyes and think about it hard enough, I can still hear the pitter-patter of my kids’ feet trampling down the hallway on Christmas morning as …

This post: 10  (Totally Subjective) Tips for Raising Well-Adjusted Teenagers ( Updated 5/23) Raising teenagers is hard.  What makes it particularly challenging is the fact that the environment in which …