Raising Teens? You Need This Book!

Raising Teens? You Need This Book!

A dear friend of mine wrote this book. He spent several years working as an EMT, scraping kids off the ground who had been driving and drinking. The experience drove him to dedicate his life to trying to reach teens. He spends the school year traveling from school to...
Cheering Up

Cheering Up

Cheerleading was not a sport that I was remotely interested in when I was in high school. In fact, I had the mistaken impression that cheerleaders were giggly, shallow, and silly, as well as conceited. The fact that I was never the most graceful teenager did not help...
Breastfeeding is Not for Everyone

Breastfeeding is Not for Everyone

My sister was born to breastfeed. From her very first baby, she just had a knack with it. Of course, she’d always loved babies and had always been around them. She had (has) a natural calmness about her that I think must have helped. I grew up thinking I never wanted...
Teenagers Are Just Older Toddlers

Teenagers Are Just Older Toddlers

Teenagers don’t really come from another planet, although it sometimes seems like it. Really, though, they’re just doing what they did when they were in the terrible twos: they are trying very hard to establish their own individuality. Dave and I wrote...
Terrible Twos, Revisited

Terrible Twos, Revisited

The terrible twos are real, for most parents. It’s a time when our little ones are trying very hard to establish some independence and assert their personalities for the first time. Dave and I wrote about our experiences with our terriblest two year old (Parker)...
Sex Talk for Breakfast

Sex Talk for Breakfast

Talking about sex is not how I envision starting my morning. Well, talking about sex with my 10-year old son is not how I envision the start of the day, anyway. And yet… It was an idyllic morning. The coffee was particularly strong and delicious, the sleep the night...