The Three Things Fathers Say Most

Family-life specialists Delmer W. Holbrook and his wife have been lecturing and conducting surveys across America. In a survey of hundreds of children, ...

Baby Blue Wisdom

Speaker and author Carol Kent was on the fast track to being an absentee parent--until her young son, Jason, made a simple observation. She recalls:

"We ...

The Corn Doesn't Matter

Adrian Rogers, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, tells about the man who made his sons work in the cornfields while their peers spent ...

Teach Your Children Well

If you live right, chances are your children will too. That's if you make sure to teach them everything. What you don't teach them, someone else ...

Bacon and Egg Sandwiches

My mother and I did not "mix." I chose a typical teenage solution to the problem--silence.

I would leave for school in the morning, come home ...

Parent Reform Before School Reform

It's not better teachers, texts, or curricula that our children need most; it's better childhoods, and we will never see lasting school reform ...

Civilization in Decline

Two welfare mothers were charged with first degree murder in Miami. They left their children locked in a room and went out for a night on the town. The ...

The Separate World of Father and Son

Sometimes I feel left out of the world my husband, Dan, shares with our son. They share experiences I would never think of offering Danny. Like the time ...

Papa's in the Pen

While I conducted my usual Tuesday evening prison ministry, my wife decided to attend a local home sales party. Our 15-year-old daughter, Faith, was at ...

How to Get Along with Mom

I heard a story the other day of two boys going to school, and they were talking about their families. One boy said he had figured out a system for getting ...