Family night cooking adventures where everyone gets to flex and strengthen their culinary muscles don't have to involve sophisticated or time-consuming recipes. If you start with foundations that kidlets already crave, you are one step ahead when it comes to improving their kitchen skills... More >>

...He passed away in 2003, but his positive role modeling continues to have an impact to this day. My wife and I have four kids and my son now has a toddler of his own... More >>

I will start out by saying my child did not act wonderful, sweet or cute at school yesterday. So this is not another 'My child is beautiful and perfect' email... More >>

In a few days, my third son will be leaving for college. As I was taking a walk today, I started to get sentimental as I think about him leaving... More >>

As an adopted child at just 29 days old, I realize the gift my biological mother gave so that I could be placed in the arms of loving parents and a stable home environment... More >>

My 5 year old grandson attends a Catholic school. His Mother came to pick him up and noticed a Dad was removing the pink polo type shirt his son had been dressed in that day. More >>

It's a tough, uncompassionate world out there. Why? Because empathy and compassion do not come naturally to humans. We have to be taught to put ourselves in other people's shoes and to see the world from someone else's eyes. Here are 3 ways to raise a compassionate child... More >>

Most parents I know feel like their kids don't listen to them, at least not the first, second, or third time they ask them to do something... More >>

My children are now 25 and 23. When they were little, my daughter would comment as we passed day care centers that she wanted to go to day care. More >>

...Shortly after we married, I became pregnant with twins. Both of us are physicians, and we realized that our colleagues who were married and both working physicians had children and marriages that were severely suffering divorce, drugs and more... More >>