Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.

Build a bridge over shame by teaching kids about sexual abuse. Give them a chance to run to us should they encounter it. Be their hero.

If you're using most of your energy to do stuff for your kids, then you'll have that much less energy to just be there for them.

There's not a lot I can fix for her anymore. Band-Aid and bedtime story days are almost over. This, I can fix with a simple Welcome.

If Mother had to be told not to shove the entire brick of Ivory up Junior's hindquarters, constipation is the least of his problems.

We can only afford two children' is a squalid argument, but more acceptable in our society than 'we don't like children'.

Unfortunately, we spend more time teaching our daughters how to avoid becoming rape victims than teaching our sons not to become rapists.

When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict.

I ve had a hard life but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started

Kid's don't care how many sermons you preach to them. The only sermon they'll hear is how you live your life in front of them.

Greatness, whether athletic or otherwise, doesn’t come from those content on just being but from those who seek being the difference.

Health is not a physical accomplishment but the manifestation of our awareness of who we are and integrity in living out of that knowledge.

She has to have four arms, four legs, four eyes, two hearts, and double the love. There is nothing “single” about a single mom.

Saturday mornings, I’ve learned, are a great opportunity for kids to sneak into your bed, fall back asleep, and kick you in the face.

The reason any person yaks excessively is because his communication is not being adequately acknowledged. He just keeps trying to be heard.