Keeping It Weird: 5 Weird Things to Do With Your Kids
How many times have you found yourself suggesting something to your kids only to have them tell you your suggestion is weird? Probably a half…
Category: Parenting
5 Things Teens Shouldn’t Fear but Should Respect
My son measured, marked, and slid the wood into place in the miter saw. As he leaned forward and pulled the trigger handle, he recoiled…
3 Signs You’ll Die a Successful Man
We all have a picture in mind of what it looks like to “arrive” or ways we gauge when someone has “made it” in life.…
5 Great Questions to Ask Your Kids Every Week
As a coach, I always drove home the point that if we communicated well as a team, we’d put ourselves in the best position to…
5 Ways to Cope With Your Child Growing Up
Parallel parking is hard. During my driver’s test, I hit an orange cone and failed. My first attempt at getting my license didn’t go too…
5 Ways to Overcome Your Greatest Parenting Challenges
Jake was a good kid from a wonderful family. He had two parents who loved him, supported him, and spent time with him. They raised…
4 Boy Stereotypes to Dispel for Your Son
As the soldiers tore him away from her, Leia realized this might be the last chance to tell him how she really felt. She looked…
5 Ways to Be a Good Listener to Your Kids
When a sound wave travels through the ear canal, it vibrates the eardrum, which causes three tiny bones to quiver, which jiggles the inner ear…
5 Girl Stereotypes to Dispel for Your Daughter
As a lifelong Spider-Man fan, I was so excited to see the webslinger on the big screen for the first time in 2002. It had…
Cultivating Connection With a Teen Who’s Too Cool for You
The only thing more difficult than being a teen might be parenting one. I’m being hyperbolic, sort of. As anyone who parents a teen knows,…