Parenting

• Giving Our Children What They Need

  As parents we all share one thing in common – we want to give our children every advantage possible. We all want better for our children than what we had. This is a wonderful ideal, but one which can cause significant turmoil and guilt for the parent, and perhaps unnecessarily so. We might do well to think back to our own childhoods and reflect upon what we consider to have been meaningful to us as children.

• Family Game Night

  It seems in our current age of technology, the board game and family game night is quickly becoming a thing of the past. Children today are more interested in video and computer games with their amazing graphics and fast paced action then they are in such mundane things as board games or are they?

• Child Violence – How to Protect Your Child

  Did you know that over 6 million boys and 4 million girls are involved in fights every year on school grounds? Many are physically threatened while a large number of students are also robbed. Learn how to better protect your children from violence.

• Empowering Kids to Deal with Bullies

  Did you know that 23% of 9th graders have carried a weapon to school recently? According to the US Justice Department, one out of three kids will be offered or sold drugs at school while one out of four kids is bullied either mentally or physically every day. Do we really know what happens to our kids when they leave the safety of our homes to go to school?

• Raising Kids With Character

  These are troubling times to raise good kids. And we don’t need researchers to share fancy statistics to prove it to us; we all know it. There are many reasons but here’s the simplest one: our kids are being literally bombarded with an unremitting assault of immoral messages and from sources such as media, television, movies, the Internet, music and peers and it’s taking a toll on their moral growth.

• Nine Tips for Raising Unspoiled Kids

  Our most important role is raising our kids to become capable, well-adjusted human beings. Here are nine tips adapted from my book Parents Do Make a Difference that enhance our parenting success in reaching that critical goal.