What parent doesn’t want calmer, happier, more secure kids? Internationally renowned family consultant Kim John Payne believes parents can use the extraordinary power of less to achieve just such a…
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“About 40 percent of students identified getting into a ‘good college’ as more important than being a ‘good person,’” writes Richard Weissbourd, author of The Parents We Mean to Be. …
Volunteerism has become an accepted ideal in America, a leader in both excess and openhandedness. How do we instill the desire to help others into our children?
Maybe, I love Bringing Up Bebe by Pamela Druckerman because my first experience abroad was as an exchange student in Paris my sixteenth summer. Maybe, I love how this American…
My mom let me try all the things all the time – novel for her day – and has helped me grow into the kind of parent who does the same thing.
My mother tried desperately – for my own good – to force me into a teaching career that the very thought of gave me migraines. That experience compelled me to…
Becoming a non-smoker is the single, most arduous challenge I have ever undertaken. As a parent, I did everything in my power to keep my kids from smoking.
Want to show your children how much you love them? According to Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell, you can employ the following methods to discover your child’s primary love language:…
“In modern society, raising emotionally healthy children is an increasingly difficult task,” explains Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell. But as far as these authors of The Five Love Languages of…
She may be the author of two books and the past host of the PBS television series “Hannah, Help Me!” but those noteworthy accomplishments take a backseat to Hannah Keeley’s…
Since I started blogging at Parenting by the Book for Richmond Family Magazine, I have read twenty-four titles from experts on everything from our kids’ disconnect with nature to the…
Last week, while reviewing holiday wish lists, I let my daughters know that some items were on backorder. My oldest remarked, “What’s Santa been doing all year?” It struck me…