Structure Beats Willpower Every Time
If you are reading this feeling exhausted, inconsistent, or frustrated with yourself, you are in the right place. Divorce is a marathon that drains you…
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Stop Just Surviving. Decide Who You’re Becoming This Year
If you’re a dad going through divorce, the new year can feel like a cruel joke. Everyone else is talking about goals, resolutions, and fresh…
7 Family Activities to Do the Week After Christmas
Merry Christmas to you and your family! I hope today is filled with lasting memories that you get to make with your kids. I plan…
5 Encouragements for Single Dads
When you are a father, you are hit daily by a world of challenges and stressful situations. Even when you have a wife to help…
5 Choices to Make When You’re Angry at Your Teen
It was not one of my better moments. I was yelling, she was crying. She stormed up to her room, and my wife asked, “Do…
4 Ways I’ve Grown From Listening to Critical Feedback
Ken Blanchard said, “Feedback is the breakfast of champions.” I’ve learned from experience that feedback helps you grow. The people who grow often do so…
Teaching Your Kids How to Have Hard Conversations
If we want our kids to become stable, healthy, well-adjusted adults, we need to do a good job of teaching them to have hard conversations…
How to Deal With Parental Alienation
By far, one of the greatest hardships a parent could ever undergo is to be alienated from his or her children. Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS),…
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…
Is Stress Good for You?
You hardly slept last night because you stayed up sanding a wooden car you promised your son you’d build for his school project. Your daughter…