Building and Maintaining Your Marital Friendship

Wouldn’t it be great to marry your best friend? In a world that’s mired with divorce, affairs and couples choosing to stay together ‘for the kids’ sake’, is it possible to turn things around? Can we — starting with you and your...

Four Goals of Misbehavior

Parents, teachers, and adults working with children can often feel baffled at the misbehavior of their kids. Sometimes it seems poor behavior is unstoppable, even with the best interventions. And perhaps most difficult, that misbehavior can really push the buttons of...

Raising Emotionally Aware Children

Remember the old admonishment, “Do what I say, not what I do.”  This was the family motto in our home!  Perhaps your parents said this to you at one time and, conceivably, you have even heard yourself say it to your children. I heard it often...

The Magic Five Hours

Awhile ago, my wife and I brought my son to the pediatrician for his sixth-month check up. “Your son is in the 90th percentile,” the doctor said with a smile, which made my fatherly pride swell up. Then she added, “in body weight.” I took...