As a parent, one of the greatest gifts you can give your child is a home where safe means home and home means safe. Emotional safety, above nearly every other factor, is key to raising children who live, love, and lead well. Parents have first access to the deepest...
A Living Trust is a legal tool to help you better manage your property, or make sure your family will be taken care of after you're gone. Essentially, a trust is a transfer of legal title from the owner (or the grantor or trustor) to an institution or person (a...
Peaceful parenting is the natural result of Bonding With Your Child Through Boundaries. Families thrive when children know what to do and parents have systems in place that relieve the need to nag. As parents, we can guide and nurture our children to become skilled in...
As a single mom, how often do you and your family have fun? “I’m taking your sister driving,” I announced to my family one evening. “To get her license she needs to learn to parallel park.” There was a chorus of “I’m coming too,” and six other children in addition to...
Father’s Day can be awkward. Stats tell us that one in four homes is single-parent-led, and those are primarily single moms. That's a lot of women and kids with an empty place where a dad is designed to be. “Writing a book to benefit others seemed as if I was digging...
By Tiffany Lindsey To help kids feel safe through divorce, parents must understand what the situation looks like from the child's view. Looking back 40 years to my parents’ divorce, there are things I would have wanted my parents to know. Divorce is traumatic and life...
When I (PeggySue) was in grade school, our teacher explained that the first of May was May Day. Halfway between the spring equinox and the summer solstice, the day was traditionally celebrated by giving baskets of sweets or flowers, often left anonymously on someone's...
Solo parents can raise confident kids, introduce them to God, and live adventurously.
This is the season when we celebrate Easter as a family and remember the greatest gift of all. Giggles quickly turned into belly laughs as I crawled on all fours, the preschooler perched on my back. Older siblings emptied the coat closet and spread their jackets on...
St. Patrick's Day, beyond the largest party in Savanna, fountain waters dyed emerald, the wearing of the green, shamrocks, and Guinness merchandise, is a timeless tale about forgiveness in the real life of St. Patrick. Patrick was a wild youth growing up in England...
We’ve heard of soccer moms and stage mothers. I’m a writer who trailers my kids and horses across the nation. My Apple computer, fondly christened MacBeth, is the essential I bring along.