During my third year of nursing school I knew I wanted to be an oncology nurse. Not your typical route for a 20-year-old girl.

We used to spank. We were both spanked as kids and we turned out OK. We read parenting books that laid out the benefits

There are a whole lot of orphans in the world, and there is a big push for more parents to adopt. Adoption is a great

I was listening to a podcast last week featuring a popular author talking about raising brave children. She gave several examples of when children

This school year has already exceeded my wildest expectations. My son Charlie does not like change, suffers from anxiety, and had been saying several weeks prior

I have been wrestling with the word “discipline” lately. The actual dictionary definition is, “the practice of training people to obey rules or a

What are some things that bother you about your kids? Things that get on your nerves, things that scare you, things that embarrass you?

When my husband and I became parents, we had big plans about how we were going to mold and shape our children into respectful

Our family has had to dramatically change the way that we spend, for several different reasons. I have been working on simplifying my life