6 Questions to Ask the Parents of your Kids’ Friends
Gone are the days when you could let your children head out the front door with the only instruction being that they should be back in time for dinner. The world simply seems to be more of a dangerous place these days. So as they stretch their wings you need to be sure that they fly safe.
6 Things Teens Say and How You Should Respond
Dealing with a moody adolescent and their hormones can challenge the best parents’ patience and wisdom. When your teen says something that makes you bristle, it’s all too easy to get drawn into an argument or a battle of wills rather than deal with what’s going on beneath the surface.
8 Signs You Have Not Done Everything You Can to Save Your Marriage
Every marriage struggles. And in most troubled marriages that are on the brink, one or both spouses often say something like “I’ve done everything I can, and it just isn’t working out.”
5 Reasons to Double Date for Married Couples
Dating your spouse is important, it’s fun and it’s helpful to strengthening your marriage. But spouses should plan to double date, too. Married couples need married friends. Double dates aren’t just for high school and college. Let me give you a personal example.
How to Model Generosity to Your Kids
Teaching our children good financial stewardship is an important life skill, and part of that includes sharing some of what we have with others in need. As parents, we need to model how to be generous to our kids, but that involves much more than just how we handle our treasure, we also need to model generosity with our time, talent, and other ways as well.
#120: 5 Manners You Must Teach Your Children (Podcast)
One of the hallmarks of this year’s presidential campaign has been plain rudeness on both sides, from the primaries to the conventions. We also see that lack of basic courtesies and manners on television, online, social media, and in life. Manners really have taken a back seat.
5 Essentials for a Great Friendship with Your Spouse
A husband and wife should be many things to one another—lover, helper, companion, confidant, and advisor. A true and lasting friend should be added to that list as well.
Susan and I were good friends even before we started seriously dating, and after 27 years of marriage, that friendship is still going strong. I can honestly say that I married my best friend.
#119: Prickly Spouse? Prepare for the Porcupine Part 2 (Podcast)
During last week’s podcast, we started discussing the trigger points of conflict that Susan and I have and how we try to disarm them. We will continue with a few more this week.
5 Ways You and Your Spouse can Help Others through Grief
There’s this guy in the Bible named Job. You may have heard of him. He’s known for suffering (a lot) and for his patience. But as I’ve been reading again through his story recently, I’m struck by his friends’ reaction when they visited him, working together to help him in his grief, and empathizing with him. The Bible says that they didn’t recognize him.
