Parents on Strike

The dishes, garbage, and dirty laundry would pile up for days when Cat and Harlan Barnard's teenage children refused to do their chores. So the Barnards—of ...

All Great Men Born Babies

In The Last Days Newsletter, Leonard Ravenhill tells about a group of tourists visiting a picturesque village who walked by an old man sitting beside ...

"March of the Penguins": Community Guards Our Lives

The documentary The March of the Penguins follows the emperor penguins of Antarctica on their incredible journey through ice and snow to mating grounds ...

"March of the Penguins": A Father's Love

The documentary movie The March of the Penguins follows the Emperor Penguins of Antarctica on their incredible journey through ice and snow to mating ...

Children View Alcohol as "Grown-Up"

Researchers at Dartmouth Medical School set up a pretend grocery store in order to learn more about how children view alcohol and other restricted products. ...

Father Struggles with Patience

A young father in a supermarket was pushing a shopping cart with his little son, who was strapped in the front. The little boy was fussing, irritable, ...

Advice for Better Parenting

Below is a list for parents adapted from the book Lists to Live By by Alice Gray, Steve Stephens, and John Van Diest.

1. Pay more attention to your marriage—or ...

Mother Passes Along Devotion to God

In the classic Broadway production Raisin in the Sun, an African-American mother struggles to keep two adult children on track. In one memorable scene, ...

Michael Jackson Wanted His Father's Love

After Michael Jackson was acquitted of child molestation charges, columnist Derrick Z. Jackson quoted the singer’s own words from a 2001 speech ...

Family Meals Are Good for Kids

A study of 4,600 adolescents (11-18 years old) found:

Thirty-three percent ate two or fewer family meals with all or most of their family the previous ...