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...
What do your friendships look like? Who are you choosing to be your friends? If your circle of friends consists solely of people who need to be rescued, and individuals who join you in poor-me pity parties, it’s time to expand your circle. Friendships are healthiest...
Back-to-school shopping is my favorite retail shopping season. Just look at all that yummy paper, bright ink pens, handy glue sticks, and notebooks in all sizes and shades. When I was a kid and finally old enough, my mom turned me loose to visit the aisles in the...
CHOOSING WISDOM: For Single Moms is a fresh 7-day devotional that helps single moms choose wisdom. When crisis crashes into your world, your nervous system springs to alert. Legal stress. Financial strain. Comforting children with questions and a broken heart. And it...
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...
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...
What exactly is repentance? On a sunny morning, I played outdoors with my two-year-old grandson. In our Midwest neighborhood without fences, a sound caught his attention and the little boy toddled toward the busy residential street. “Come back here this instant,” I...
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...
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.