Well, either they have just returned or will be returning soon to their youthful, almost full-time jobs….school. We may not see school as jobs, but at every stage of life we perform some task that ends in us getting our needs and some of our wants met. In adulthood it is our career path or [...]
I have to start this article with a big praise to all of the folks who coordinated the “Diamond Dash” in downtown Roanoke on Saturday. If you are unfamiliar with this, it was a scavenger hunt through downtown Roanoke with 500 of your closest friends. The winning couple walked away with a $15,000 Ritani diamond [...]
Have you ever noticed how much you miss something once you have lost it? Recently, my eleven year old laptop bit the dust. Yes, I know, an eleven year old laptop is a dinosaur, but it was my dinosaur. The past two weeks have been interesting to say the least. Whether I am trying to [...]
How is your communication? What do your unscripted, daily, in the moment communications sound like? As my wife reminded me recently when I was fussing at my kids, we need to be aware of how we sound. Here are a few simple ways of evaluating how we sound. When you don’t like what someone is [...]
Should I do what I can to make my child happy? It seems like a simple question and it is one that I hear often from parents. We are almost trained to have this “parental responsibility of happiness” mind-set from the time of our child’s birth. When a baby cries, we are told that they [...]
How many of us were afraid of our parents while growing up? By afraid, I don’t mean that we thought our parents would in some way abuse us, I mean that we had a healthy respect for them and knew very clearly that they had the power to affect our lives significantly in both good [...]
If you have never heard of John Rosemond, something is wrong. Known as one of America’s most popular speakers on parenting issues and the author of a nationally-syndicated parenting column appearing weekly in more than 200 newspapers, he is hard to miss. He is the author of twelve best-selling books on parenting and family issues, [...]
It may be a weird connection to some, but when I think of Easter, I think of marriage. Actually, I think of the process of getting married and all that goes into it. Over the last 19 years I have done hundreds of premarital counseling sessions and have always considered it a privilege that a [...]
I heard a great joke the other day from a 6 year old. He asked “What happens when you hang out with a lot of ducks?………..You start quacking!” The funniest part of the whole thing was the kid rolling on the floor laughing in complete hysterics. After he calmed down I asked him what it meant. [...]
It is an unfortunate reality that divorce is so common in our children’s lives today. Some would say that we don’t see divorce as that big of a deal these days, while others, myself included, would say that we don’t see marriage as that big of a deal. Regardless of why it is so common, [...]
