How you define success can guide how you live every day and the decisions you make. So...
Some of us have happy memories of good fathers who taught us lessons about work. Others may have had to learn those...
Jesus honored his mother. Let us never forget that, even as the “mommy wars” drag women into debates over various definitions of...
In this video, Janet Wilde shares about how her faith informs her work as a homemaker. This video was shown in corporate...
Mark Roberts poses a question about family and work.
On Father’s Day, some of us lovingly rack our brains to come up with a creative present for Dad. Others, who have no dads or whose dads have not done very well at...
Blogger Lisa-Jo Baker writes, “They tell you that motherhood is a high and noble calling. But they don't tell you you'll clean...
Good old Dad. He’ll be happy this Sunday for Father’s Day even if you buy him another tie and a pair of...
Mother’s Day: that Sunday once a year when we honor moms with flowers and chocolates and maybe even chip in with the...
My daughter Shelby turns 17 this month. We have been through some hard times with her over the last few years. Shelby has read this and is fine with me telling you about...
In the fellowship of parenting, we often sit in the family room, literal or virtual, laughing and swapping stories. We discuss bedtime routines and college savings plans. We share laundry advice...
Simplicity is not a new concept. Henry David Thoreau dreamed of keeping his accounts on his thumbnail. For centuries people have known that simple solutions are often the best solutions. What about...
Parenting is a balancing act, is it not? And it's a hard balancing act. It's not like walking a wire where you have to keep from falling to the right or to the...
Almost every parent can tell stories about the things they have learned from their children. Sure, kids are messy and loud and try our patience. But children also clearly have the gift of innocent...
I’ve never been a math guy. Numbers scare me in the same way zombies do; both seem so foreign and lack even...
Blundering, bungling, fumbling... ...
That Christmas should be a time of joy and peace is a given. That it’s often instead a time of stress and disagreement is also a given. No matter how much we try...
Let's call them moments of grace - moments of unexpected blessing. We've all had them. Your car runs out of gas just as you pull into the station. You leave your wallet behind...
There is an old song we used to sing in church - "Count Your Blessings." I used to think it was a bit sugary and sweet. In real life, telling someone to count...
One morning I spied my son sitting on one of the kitchen chairs, his toes easily touching the floor. I stopped and stared. Something about his posture and those long, lean legs …...
