Super Nanny is going to try to show Phil Davis the damage he is doing to his family by using his youngest children. How the emotional abuse and the verbal abuse is truly damaging. Reminds me of this story: NAILS IN THE FENCE There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His Father gave him a bag...

In What He Must Be …If He Wants to Marry My Daughter Voddie Baucham Jr. does Christian dads a favor.  He challenges them with a biblical vision of Christian courtship; and he cushions his challenge with a clear cut, easy to read, guide for how to think and plan about their daughter’s fu...

There you see Sarah receiving her first belt at her taekwondo class. The final part of her belt test involved kicking through a board. I expected it to be some kind of styrofoam or balsa or something–she’s only four years old after all. But no, it was a pine plank, and a decently thick o...

The rain is cold and very wet. It is also much needed. And, perhaps the cold and wet day has also dampened other things. Hopefully I can be vague enough to not reveal identities and yet specific enough to speak to the issue. God himself knows that there are certainly enough examples, so protecting i...

The other night Mr. Motorcycle made an unexpected power grab in the household by sitting in his chair, taking the remote, finding the most annoying television show possible, and refusing to change it. It was all about road rage and bad drivers and criminals fleeing the police while being followed wi...

Filed under: Money & work, Chores Like most parents, Annette Kiesow now thinks twice before she buys her six-year-old son, Josh, a new toy. "We talk about what things cost, and compare the prices of things when we're at the store," says the Merrimack, N.H. mom. "We talk about the things he has a...

Sue Shellenbarger: When C. Stephen Guyer's three children were growing up, he told them stories about how his grandfather, a banker, lost all in the 1930s, but didn't lose sight of what he valued most. In one of the darkest times, Mr. Guyer says, when his grandfather was nearly broke, he loaded his ...

Nan Rich, the Florida state senator who's been trying for the past few years to rid the Sunshine State of its noxious ban on gay adoptions, is back on her game again this legislative session: State Sen. Nan Rich, a Weston Democrat who is co-chair of the Senate Children & Families Committee, has ...

Many parents today think that if they keep a clean house, bring home a good income and keep their children clean and clothed they are doing a good job. Nothing could be further from the truth. Lots of  parents come home from work stressed and exhausted with no time or energy to spend with their chi...

That's Greta Garbo. Every once in awhile I'll see someone who says she's fed up and wants to be left alone. I think it's a Greta Garbo line, I 'vant to be alone, but it's not hers exclusively. Greta doesn't own it. A person can have a million reasons for wanting to be alone, but one of the more inte...