Family Life

Ciara was our first child, born during the lazy days of summer when hopes were high and dreams weaved themselves into the fabric of our …

“Within the last decade or so we’ve started to learn that brain fitness is a bit akin to physical fitness,” Aaron Seitz, a neuroscientist at …

Sex is a topic that is often overlooked among Christian women. Somehow, sex is thought to be dirty or sinful. Proper Christian women would never …

A friend once admitted that his two children were so different from each other that he actually found it difficulty to “like” both of them …

It was one of the cutest lines on the perennial sitcom hit, Happy Days. Every now and then, the avuncular dad, Tom Bosley, would be …

Someone recently asked me how I balance work (teaching high school students) and time with my daughter as a single mother. I hate to give …

If you are a mom, you have said it a million times, “Go clean your room!” It is a rare mother who gives birth to …

I can say this because I’m a woman. Sometimes we misuse our tongues. We criticize. We judge. And we gossip about what we criticize and …

Even in the best divorces, kids live divided lives in which they struggle to understand their parents’ behaviors, negotiate tangled family systems, and develop values …

“Give me your description of someone enmeshed in the SuperWoman Syndrome!” “All right,” I said in response to the demanding voice at the other end …