"An adolescent and their parents are simply experiencing two kinds of helplessness: Helplessness born of experience and the helplessness born of lack of experience" ~ Phillips In our home, adolescence came out of nowhere.  It seemed one day my son was a child, and - poof! - the next day he woke ... Read More about True Confessions of the Mom of an Adolescent

You might be like me.  When I became a mom, I scrambled to gather up wisdom and insight about my monumental new responsibility.  This precious life stared at me, sometimes screaming his tiny little lungs out.  All I had done to prepare was register for baby showers and read What to Expect When ... Read More about Three loving things I promise to do every day as a mom

We are parenting in one of the first generations to deal with this much access to technology.  The internet only became a common household reality in the 1990s.  Because of this, we are pioneers, breaking new ground on uncharted territory.  I bet you'd be surprised that long before technology, ... Read More about A proven method that will make your children say no to technology