3 Ways to Validate Your Child’s Feelings
My daughter was frustrated at messing up the chords I was teaching her. She threw her guitar to the floor. “I can’t do it!” she…
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5 Common Discipline Strategies Every Dad Should Avoid
Most parents have a basic understanding that disciplining a child is necessary in order for him or her to develop properly. However, parenting can often…
10 Ways to Be a Man of Integrity
In the 1925 U.S. Open, famed golfer Bobby Jones pulled a one iron out of his bag and addressed the ball. As he set up…
7 Things Your Kids Will Never Forget About You
It’s funny the things kids never forget about parents, the random memories that have a permanent spot in our minds. One of those for me…
5 Reasons Tween Boys Need Your Empathy
I was doing my best to sleep on a thin mattress on the floor of a messy and very smelly cabin. It was six in…
10 Reasons Why You Can’t Be Replaced
The David Livingstone Birthplace Museum in Scotland is a treasure trove. You can learn a lot there about Livingstone’s son Robert. In 1863, when he…
10 Ways to Make Your Family Laugh More
My dad made us laugh all the time. One of his favorite things to do to make us laugh was to dress up. On New…
Confessions of a Tired Dad
It feels like it’s been a long week already, and I’m tired. Work takes its toll, as does the work of parenting. And I know—love…
5 Things Dads Need to Rise to the Occasion
After seven years of coaching the Philadelphia Eagles, which included a Super Bowl loss, Dick Vermeil quit. He was burned out. Over the next 15…