Right before Thanksgiving, I sat down with my granddaughters, ages six and three, with a Christmas toy catalog. As we turned the pages the oldest circled and put our initials… Read More

The Story of the Ugliest Christmas Tree In our first year of marriage, I was still finishing up my education degree while my husband worked for a church as a… Read More

So you probably think you would be a much better parent if you had more hours in the day, don't you? Bummer that life doesn't work that way. When you… Read More

We are in that sweet spot between Thanksgiving and Christmas, where it seems that everything around us takes a soft curve—or a sharp right turn—from a spirit of gratitude to… Read More

There was a time in my life when watching the “The Tonight Show” when it aired was normal. Forcing my eyelids to stay open wasn’t even an issue. Those days… Read More

It would be easy if all you had to do was tell random groups of people, “No thanks, I’m not going to jump off a bridge today.” It’s usually not… Read More

Want a great way to help your kids focus less on themselves see the needs of others this season? Carlos Whittaker shares a great tip to help instill the value… Read More

When our oldest daughter was a preschooler, her favorite book was the “bird story.” Countless times she would say, “Read me bird story” as she plopped it (and herself) in… Read More

My family is Korean-American, children of immigrants. We're what the media would call "devout, evangelical Christians." We have a son who is disabled, non-verbal with autism and ADHD. Especially living in… Read More

My job, as a parent, is to slowly instill in him the values to shift the balance. Where his default setting is to look inward, I want to engage him… Read More