Parenting Update Archives

Why are a rapidly growing number of Chinese parents sending their children to Christian high schools in the United States?

Have you ever struggled to decide between career or kids? Here's my story.

[M]en are an endangered species. I really believe that. Over the past 15 years, I have been working directly and indirectly with college students....

Your kids need you to help them make faith their own and live it out fully. God wants your kids to move beyond believing to putting their faith in...

I don't mind putting in the effort with my kids … as long as I see the results. Today.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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