It’s not just girls, boys want to keep up with the latest trends too. We can use lessons from the workplace to help teens with homework. A new study found a link between degrading lyrics and teen sex. Teen obesity is just as deadly as teen smoking. R-rated movies are prompting teens to smoke. ...

My husband Todd and I know that we are a little different. Most people would say planting a church with your husband could be a really, really dumb idea...especially if you are both staff members.  I don't care how many years you have been doing ministry on a church staff...church planting...

Margaret in Minnesota quotes Caryll Houselander: In Caryll Houselander’s Wood of the Cradle, Wood of the Cross, she explains (with tremendous insight for a woman who herself never bore children) that “there is nothing more mysterious than infancy, nothing so small and yet so imperious. The...

This post by Derek Lowe is about spending the time necessary to develop technical skill as a scientist, but I could not resist the impulse to draw the analogy to learning how to raise children. Especially the last part (please don't try to figure out the allegorical/analogous meaning of "ge...

DadSense   It’s the bottom of the 7th inning in 8 year old PONY baseball and your son is up to bat, man on base, 2 outs and he has 2 strikes and ball against him.  What do you do?  Do you shout “Get a hit!�  Or do you let the other parents shout and get excited.  Probably the latter.  Ev...

Hi, I'm Cynthia...I'm a workaholic. I made a commitment to God, myself, and my family that in 2009, I am going to work less. I have been very convicted about it the last few months.  I LOVE to work...I love my job...I have been working since I was 14.   I admit, being a mot...

I was one of those who waited...I waited 9 years before diving into the deep end...you know, parenting. We lived our 20's, worked hard, played hard, got into debt, paid it off.  We flew to NYC one year on Christmas Day and had brunch at the Waldorf-Astoria.  Life was...well, all abou...

Filed under: Relatives, Childcare, Environment For most of us, there was a point at which it was hard for us to imagine ourselves as parents. And, possibly, in the farthest recesses of our minds, it was even harder for us to imagine our own parents as grandparents. Inevitably, as we became more comf...

 Do you remember the Seinfeld when Kramer is at "1st and 1st" and tells Jerry "I'm a the Nexis of the universe?" Well, that is kinda of how I felt this weekend. I ran my right hand into a wall accidentally on Friday and bruised it (depth perception problems!), we went t...

Looking for something to do out back with your kids this spring? Derek sent me a cool article from Japan that describes in detail how to make hikaru dorodango, i.e., "balls of mud that shine." Here's Derek: "This is an......