Misbehaving Daughter Sees Need for Conversion

Ken Canfield writes in "The Heart of a Father”:

During a family vacation, Sarah got a little ornery and pushed Hannah.

"Did you push your ...

Mother's Unanswered Prayer for Self-Improvement

We all know what it's like to still have growing to do.

Jeanne Olsen, a mother of five from Illinois, took her daughter Kirsten, age 9, out for a mother-daughter ...

Singer Garth Brooks Parents with Discipline

On the television show, "The View," country superstar Garth Brooks was asked about raising his children and if he corrects them when they misbehave. ...

Frederick Douglass' Mother's Daily Sacrifice

Frederick Douglass grew up as a slave in Maryland in the early nineteenth century. He escaped and became one of the century's leading abolitionists, ...

Humorous Things My Mother Taught Me

My mother taught me about the food groups: "If you put one foot outside that door, you're not getting any homemade bread."

My mother taught ...

Actor Bruce Willis on Fatherhood

Actor Bruce Willis, star of the films Pulp Fiction, The Sixth Sense, and Armageddon lived life as a brash, ambitious party-goer and womanizer. He says: ...

Social Scientists on Benefits of Marriage

Marriage does a lot of social good, concluded a report titled "Why Marriage Matters: 21 Conclusions from the Social Scientists."

The study found ...

Family Held Together by Promises

What is a family but a community of promises made and promises kept no matter what? A family is not just two or more people related by blood who happen ...

Mother Brings Peace During Crisis

Cindy Holmes is a writer and pediatric nurse in Houston, Texas. She wrote an article about a mother and child she got to know at the hospital who were ...

A Father Who Won't Affirm

In We Are Still Married, Garrison Keillor writes:

The town ball club was the Lake Wobegon Schroeders, so named because the starting nine were brothers, ...