Parenting with Perspective: Your Teen/Child is an Individual Sometimes we get frustrated, as parents, because our kids aren’t doing things the way we think we would be doing them if we were in their shoes. In fact,
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Facing the Hard Things This image is one of my all-time favorites. For so many reasons! Several years ago, my wife and son and I got to go on a dream vacation with our best friends to
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Same boat, same whitewater, different experiences! I remember watching a film with my wife some years back called, “The Story of Us.” It chronicles the various chapters, snippets, and moments back and forth over the years that
I wrote this post 7 years ago, and it is as relevant now as it was then. Even more critical, given the recent US Surgeon General’s call to attention I mentioned in my previous post a couple
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