It’s Not Just You!
Feeling weary as you make it through one day at a time of this coronavirus/COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 season of “sheltering at home” and “maintaining social distancing?” Yeah. I’ll bet you are. It isn’t just you. This...
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Five Reasons You Should Be Concerned About Teens Vaping
If you have not yet heard about vaping or “juuling,” you haven’t been paying close attention to what’s happening with teens and pre-teens today. Yes, I said pre-teens. Vaping (sometimes referred to by its...
10 Simple Ways to Maintain Mental/Emotional Health
This is a picture of me in my ultimate “happy place” – at the bank of the Snake River just at the edge of Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. If I could choose...
Keep Calm, Be Proactive, and Carry On
WOW! Our present situation with Covid-19 is like nothing we have ever experienced. We are abruptly trying to adjust to unprecedented closings of activities, schools, and organizations. Some are crying, “APOCALYPSE!” Others are crying,...
Change the World! One Word of Encouragement at a Time.
Encouragement. It can be given and received in so many ways: A smile. A thoughtful text. Thanking a restaurant server or store clerk by name. Giving a hug. Cheering for someone during their performance....
Lightening Your Load: Expectations
I’m firing up the blog rhythm today with a series about the tremendous freeing value of lightening your load. We will look at four different ways we can unnecessarily weigh ourselves down in life,...
Grimy and Grateful
Last Thursday morning started off pretty much like any other Thursday morning at my house. I got up just as my wife was heading to work, woke up The Lad (who is now less...
Six Reasons to Exercise Regularly with Your Teen
As we get ready to start another school year with our families, I want to share a personal and professional encouragement with you on something that can really revolutionize your family life: exercising regularly...
Empowering Our Kids Against Addiction: Part 5 – Following A Spiritual Compass
If you have been following this series, I hope you now have a clear picture of some of the essential tools you can share with your kids and teens to help them live as...
Empowering Our Kids Against Addiction: Part 4 – Living A Life Of Service To Others
As we begin looking at how cultivating a life of service to others guards our teens against the allure of addiction, let me tell you why I chose this image to illustrate the point:...
Empowering Our Kids Against Addiction: Part 3 – Facing The Hard Things In Life Directly
Let’s be realistic. Not every hard thing you or your kids will face in life is of giant proportion. It’s not always little David with his five little stones and his faith in God...
Empowering Our Kids Against Addiction: Part 2 – Working For Long-Term Rewards
As we continue this parenting series on how to help our teens prevent addiction in their lives, we move from the importance of living honestly to the power of working for long-term rewards. This...
