Parenting Archives

Patricia Heaton just wants to be "left alone." Not all the time, mind you. But definitely on Mother's Day—and that's whether she's playing...

One of the reasons Mother's Day can evoke so much emotion is because many stepmoms feel as though they have all of the pain, frustrations,...

The Kyrgyzstan revolution has thrown families in America in limbo as they wait to finalize their adoptions. If their children reach age 16 before...

The big question is this: How do parents establish their position of authority, while also maintaining their relationship with their teen?

When a young child's sensibilities are constantly violated, and he begins to ignore the natural pangs of guilt after yielding to cultural...

A study by researchers at Tulane University that indicates spanking children leads to more aggressive behavior.

John Rosemond, author of nearly a dozen books on parenting, calls on today's parents to return to the parenting principles of an earlier...

Nothing could have prepared me for the challenges I faced after bringing 2-year-old Jenny home from Russia. "Can't you send her back?" a...

The world is an uproar over an adoptive family in Tennessee who put their 7-year-old boy on an unaccompanied one-way flight back to Russia. It is...

Every time I see what is going on in Russia, with the government calling for an immediate halt on American adoptions, I think about the orphanage...

The bullying endured by a South Hadley teenager who subsequently killed herself shocked the nation. It shouldn’t have.

Counter to what some people might think, I find that the most irresponsible teens come from the most responsible parents...

With a brother just seven months older, our adopted special son is well aware that there are so many things he is just not capable of at this point...

There's no magic formula you can use to make sure that your kids fare well in this fallen world. What matters most is for your kids to see you...

Battling a culture that devalues civility in general and purposefully attacks tradition makes it seem impossible to teach our sons how to be...