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…
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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…
10 Strategies to Employ When Your Children Are Fighting
A friend of mine had kids who were constantly fighting. After years of it, he was finally fed up when his kids, who were now…
10 Ways to Keep Your Kids From Doing Dumb Things
I was around 5 years old and my friend’s mom was about to take us someplace fun, so we got into the car. This was…
3 Common Dad Fails That Are Easy to Avoid
The year my middle daughter was in kindergarten, my wife was pregnant, sick, and on bedrest when school picture day came. I was overwhelmed during…
5 Tactics of Online Predators
“Stay together,” I remember saying to my kids over and over again. Anytime they wanted to explore apart from us, their parents, I prepared them…
5 Things to Say When Your Child Would Rather Be With Mom
Over the summer, we took our first road trip. We packed up my Ford Edge and drove from central Florida to north Georgia to stay…
5 Signs You Need to Change Your Boundaries With Your Kids
Several years ago, a friend’s son’s favorite game to play was Fortnite, a shooter game. One of the draws of this game is the ability…