Parenting Update Archives

I went from occasionally helping with flash cards and reading bedtime stories to becoming a full-fledged principal, music instructor, and school...

Tommy Jordan, the laptop shooting angry dad has become an Internet folk hero for meting out gunslinging justice to his rebellious 15-year-old...

Even though I don’t want it, and even though I may fight it emotionally and deep down and with my friends, I will walk through intentional acts of...

My parents made plenty of mistakes. Yours did too. As a dad now with 4 kids, I've finally arrived at that place where I am more cognizant of the...

Whether angry at the world, angry at America, or just a psychopath, 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner struck out with homicidal anger this past...

My 5 year old son cried last week in bed because he was lonely. And I cried with him because I knew exactly what he was feeling...

Jackie met someone at work and claimed to be in love. "I thought a lot about it and even prayed. I'm moving in with Tom," she insisted. The Smiths...

Laying in the tent during another in our long line of horrible weather Boundary Waters canoe trips, I was angry...

I am reminded daily of the interconnected nature of my parenting and my theology.

God's showed us His miraculous power at Christmas

Daughters and sons are affected by "stuffitis" in different ways, but fortunately, there are cures.