5 Ways Dads Cause Family Tension
Charlie lay in his room quietly, wishing his dad would go to bed. His stomach was in knots. The pots clanged again with more yelling. It was 1 in the morning, and his dad was in the kitchen trying to...
View Article5 Ways People Justify Lying
Last spring, I read a book called Killers of the Flower Moon. Maybe you’ve seen the movie on Apple Plus. It’s a true story that happened in the 1920s. The Osage people had been kicked off their land...
View Article5 Things Your Wife’s Critical Inner Voice Is Telling Her
A friend of mine, a wife and mother in her early 40s, was talking to a younger woman recently. The young woman asked, “Do you want to see a picture of yourself from the other day?” My friend’s answer...
View Article5 Ways to Avoid Becoming a Dysfunctional Family
Mason’s dad stood over him and said sternly, “You disobeyed me.” His father’s words snapped like a whip, making the young boy flinch. His disobedience was putting the cat bowl in the wrong place....
View Article5 Ways to Deal With Holiday Depression
The second I flipped open the phone, she shouted, “We’re engaged!” Years earlier, when I had just started working with teens, I met Emily and John. They started dating their senior year of high school....
View Article5 Reasons Dads Jump to the Wrong Conclusions
Our guests were set to arrive in two days, and the house needed to be cleaned from top to bottom. I walked into the playroom and saw a disaster. Every bin was out, and I was beside myself. I stormed up...
View Article5 Ways to Deal With Parental Anxiety
Gil arrived home furious. He had a terrible day at work, and, in a spur of the moment decision, quit his job. The stress at work combined with the emotional struggles his oldest son was facing pushed...
View Article5 Ways to Raise a Well-Rounded Person
I took a class on adolescence, and someone in it said that if Michael Jordan were a teenager today, he probably wouldn’t have had the same career. Coaches would have made him focus on basketball all...
View Article3 Main Concerns in Parenting Today
I arrived home at the normal time, and before I even got out of my car, I could hear the screaming. When I opened the door, my 6-year-old son said, “Dad! Elena cut her head open!” Hardly the words I...
View Article5 Ways Children Are a Blessing
In 2016, I wrote an open letter to men who said they hated being dads. The idea came from stats that showed that there were a thousand searches a month on Google for “I hate being a dad.” That stat was...
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