This is parenting.

This week I go to my son’s college orientation, in preparation for launching him from the nest in a month or so. It is a bittersweet time, but…

He’s not your baby

“He’ll always be my baby.” If I’ve heard that once, I’ve heard it a thousand times. And most people tend to agree with it, the idea that..

A Change is Gonna Come

Over the last couple of days, we’ve posted a couple of answers to some vexing parenting questions. One was written, the other video. I sincerely hope they were helpful. There will be dozens more coming…

Focus on the possible

The first line I ever wrote for my first book was this: “The greatest thing we can do for our kids is learn to focus on ourselves.”

I knew this would sound a bit jarring to most, and even…

Are You Raising Kids? Or Adults

In the hit song “Stressed Out,” Twenty One Pilots’s Tyler Joseph longs for the ability to “turn back time, to the good old days…when nothing really mattered.” He wants to go back to childhood, where he…